Can you overlay multiple cameras in Godot?

[Petey]

Godot Version

4.3

Question

Hi all,

I”ve been trying to overlay multiple cameras but not having much luck. Is there a way to do anything like that in Godot? I can’t seem to find much on it so I thought I’d check here.

Thanks,
Pete

[Linnya]

Not sure I understand what you mean exactly, but you can combine SubViewports that use their own cameras. That way you can have multiple cameras rendering in one. The subviewports need to be connected to something that actually renders them, like a SubViewportContainer or TextureRect.

[Petey]

Oh thanks! I’ll look into that.
In this instance I was planning to have a game view camera, and a UI view camera (with different layer masks). The UI camera would be rendered over the top of the game view camera.

[Linnya]

That should work, but it requires the viewport texture to have transparency, which I’ve never tried, but maybe it’s enough if the camera is facing the void and the texture has a transparent background.

[Petey]

Cool I got something working here, it’s a little whacky
Thanks for the help!