Drawing objects on top of the GUI with an orthographic camera?

I tried following 2 different tutorials for doing this, but they are very old and I could not reproduce them. I've attached my 2 camera settings, what is seen in the play view and how the scene is setup. The screenshots are from a simple test where I am using perspective cameras, as I tend to try to get a tutorial working before adapting it to my needs.

Just tried a 3rd tutorial, still can't figure this out:

1. Add a new Layer tag "gui".
2. gui elements: Set Layer of your gui-elements to "gui"
3. (first)gui camera: set Culling Mask to "gui" only
4. add second camera (object camera at the same position as the first camera)
5. object camera: set Clear Flags to "Depth only".
6. object camera: set Culling Mask to everything except "gui"
7. object camera: set Depth to a higher value than gui camera (e.g. gui camera -1, object camera 0)
8. object camera: uncheck GUILayer

The only thing in the scene is a cube and the 2 cameras.

 

I just realized all of the tutorials were talking about GUITextures, not Texture2D which I have been using. That's the legacy-legacy system. I guess what I'm trying to do is impossible?

I have the current-legacy system (lol) drawing a background image and I'm using the new gui system to draw text in the world above little 2D monsters which are drawn by the current-legacy gui. The new gui uses 3D gameobjects, so anything drawn with the new gui system is hidden behind the background image drawn by the previous gui system.

Is there a workaround besides picking one gui system or the other? I just wasted enough time trying to do this alone & with tutorials that now I think it's about time to ask for help

Help, please.

--edit

This seems to work. Hopefully it isn't doing something terrible to performance that is beyond my knowledge.

Code (CSharp):

1. public Texture2D img;
2.     public Camera otherCam;
3.  
4.     void OnGUI()
5.     {
6.         GUI.DrawTexture(new Rect(0,Screen.height*0.5f,Screen.width*0.1f,Screen.height*0.1f), img);
7.         GUI.Button(new Rect(Screen.width*0.9f, Screen.height*0.5f, Screen.width*0.1f, Screen.height*0.1f), "Button");
8.         otherCam.Render();
9.     }

 

I think you might have better success to get proper answer if you get a mod to move this thread to either one of the UI sections

 

Do people other than me like the previous system better? it seemed that everyone had jumped ship.

I do, however, apologize for intentionally posting this in this thread in order to amass views & get more people to assist. I will now voluntarily ban myself for 24 hours.