<function name="RenderView" parent="render" type="libraryfunc"> <description> Renders the scene with the specified viewData to the current active render target. <bug issue="1330">Static props and LODs are rendered improperly due to incorrectly perceived distance.</bug> <bug>Using render.RenderView on a RenderTarget texture in a 3d context like SWEP:PostDrawViewModel() while drawing the RenderTarget texture causes screen flickers.</bug> </description> <realm>Client</realm> <args> <arg name="view" type="table" default="nil">The view data to be used in the rendering. See <page>Structures/ViewData</page>. Any missing value is assumed to be that of the current view. Similarly, you can make a normal render by simply not passing this table at all.</arg> </args> </function> <example> <description>How you could use this to draw the view on a derma panel.</description> <code> local frame = vgui.Create( "DFrame" ) frame:SetSize( ScrW() - 100, ScrH() - 100 ) frame:Center() frame:MakePopup() function frame:Paint( w, h ) local x, y = self:GetPos() local old = DisableClipping( true ) -- Avoid issues introduced by the natural clipping of Panel rendering render.RenderView( { origin = Vector( 0, 0, 0 ), angles = Angle( 0, 0, 0 ), x = x, y = y, w = w, h = h } ) DisableClipping( old ) end </code> <output><image src="RenderViewResult.jpg" alt="300px"/></output> ⤶ </example>⤶ ⤶ ⤶ <example>⤶ <description>Drawing the view to a render target.</description>⤶ <code>⤶ local renderTarget = GetRenderTarget( "ExampleRenderTarget", 1024, 1024 )⤶ hook.Add("PostRender", "RenderTargetExample", function()⤶ render.PushRenderTarget( renderTarget )⤶ ⤶ local view = {⤶ fov = 90,⤶ x = CurTime() * 100 % 1024,⤶ }⤶ ⤶ cam.Start2D()⤶ render.RenderView( view )⤶ cam.End2D()⤶ ⤶ render.PopRenderTarget()⤶ end)⤶ ⤶ local customMaterial = CreateMaterial( "example_rt_mat2", "UnlitGeneric", {⤶ ["$basetexture"] = renderTarget:GetName(),⤶ } )⤶ ⤶ hook.Add( "HUDPaint", "ExampleDraw", function()⤶ surface.SetDrawColor( 255, 255, 255, 255 )⤶ surface.SetMaterial( customMaterial )⤶ surface.DrawTexturedRect( 0, 0, customMaterial:GetTexture( "$basetexture" ):Width() / 2, customMaterial:GetTexture( "$basetexture" ):Height() / 2 )⤶ end )⤶ </code>⤶ <output>⤶ <upload src="70c/8deee7377ce4435.png" size="3877176" name="image.png" />⤶ </output>⤶ </example>