Hi. I am aiming to add some of my 3d models into UI, for overviewing items. I didn't want it to be entity related, obviously I can spawn empty entity that will be storing this geometry, and swap geometries whenever I want, eventually.
But I would like this mesh to be in front of the camera always in some specific place in UI. I was thinking what is the proper way to do it. So far I use pEntity->LoadGeometry() method, and I take position and forward direction of the camera to place it where I want. Is this the proper way? Or is there any other way to render meshes. I tried with IStatObj interface, and I got the pointer, but all I can do with it is to apply it to some entity, which is the same as calling LoadGeometry. Any ideas?

This video for reference. https://youtu.be/GOaBJzDkwJw

I know it's game sdk and all, but I am only asking about those models in front of a camera, to get the best result. Not asking about ui and how to create it. Just about those models in front of camera.

I also like this feature, I see that the game Kingdom Come Deliverance render the main character full body when we open inventory (I haven't played that game though)

Yes, something like this would be cool. The question is how to achieve that ? It has to make the mesh always on the top of ui in this case

Make the window where the character needs to be transparent and place the character mesh in front of the camera view when the user clicks the inventory button?

put mesh in position of near clip plane+20 , put plane mesh with blur texture in position of near clip plane+40. better parent mesh to camera entity ,then your mouse pan updown and left right to change local rotation.

for render 3d viewport , you need render target from camera. then you can mix it with ui.

for now, cryengine does not have ui assigned with material.

Well, yeah, this is one option. That's what I do at the moment. The problem is that mesh in front of the camera may intersect with other objects in some specific camera positions. Walls etc. So it should be drawn always on the top. I saw the other topic here, that show how to make mesh render on the top, I'll need to test it. However.. is simple loading geometry for entity placed in front of camera correct way to do it?

Mknmknmknjk - what is the plane with blur texture for ?

do you see the blur staff behind mesh. that a plane
with material with blur texture assigned.just alway face camera.

unreal engine 4 and cryengine have ui that have material assigned. and can write shader .

cryengine lack this.

and cryengine does not tell where to get render target from camera.
do not support multi camera rendering.

I tried adding these meshes as I usually do and set flags to draw it as nearest, but they still can intersect with other objects and disappear.

So you use something like this? And your rendered object still intersects with other objects?
What objects is it intersecting/clipping with?