How do I render a mesh object on Canvas?

I've added a mesh renderer, a material a canvas renderer, placed the object on the UI Layer, still I can't get it to render in game view.

I'm trying to create a little Procedural character/face/avatar generator, but if I can't render it on the Canvas, it'll be all for naught. It's just a plane of vertices, rigged to bones with various morphs set up to get different head shapes (so far), I spend most of the day getting it functional, now I just need to get it to appear on the Canvas.

 

Solution1: Set canvas's render mode to ScreenSpace, assign the UI Camera to the canvas and adjust the object's zoffset.

Solution2 : Use another Camera to render the object on a target texutre and assign the texture to RawImage

 

Also check placement order in hierarchy in canvas and hierarchy order overall. I know this is a simple solution but many get caught in this. It is easier to move things around before digging too deep into code or asset problems.

 

Is that this solution, or a different one?

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-RenderTexture.html

 

OK, so I think I figured out how to do the texture rendering bit. I set up a separate camera, and rendered it onto a render texture and that's working fine, the problem I have now is, how do I assign that render texture, or a material with that render texture on it, to a UI element? I can't seem to do anything about the UI Material.

 

Nevermind the last, I mostly figured it out, I didn't see that you could assign a material to a UI Image, so I did that.

However how, the image is quite dark, even though I have unlit materials on everything.

Here's the colors I expected.


Compared to the color I'm getting:


For Material, I chose UI/Unlit/Detail, since any other shader was just rendering a black box.

Both the skintone and backdrop materials are Universal Render Pipeline/Unlit shaders.

Edit: Nevermine all that too Guess I just needed to type it out. I figured out that the Main Color of the Material I had created was set to gray by default, and it was causing a dark tint sort of effect. I set it to white, and the material now looks correct.

 

Yes, then you could assign this texture to the RawImage Component.