Making 2D & Forward Renderers work at the same time

Hello,

I've recently converted my game to use the 2D renderer to get all the awesome 2D light features that come with it. However I need a portion of the scene to be in 3D, with light and shadow, and to render something in a render texture that will then be used in the 2D scene.

How can I achieve this in an efficient way? It looks like I could have the two renderers in the pipeline and switch from one to the other on each frame, but that sounds like a very costly solution while there might be another one I'm not aware of.

What do you think?

Many thanks,
Kromah

 

Well I've got my question answered while watching the last Unity conference. Turns out you can assign a specific renderer to a camera, output to a render texture, a use that in my scene rendered by a camera using the default renderer. Nice!