My First Post! How to have a plane display a cameras view(live)

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Hello fellow blenders I seemed to have hit a dead end have finally signed up so I can get some help. I’m somewhat proficient in the use of blender but I seem to have hit a conundrum

So what I’ve been trying to do is set up a camera that will display its viewpoint on a planes face. For example a digital camera has a screen(plane) on its backside allowing you to see what the camera sees. However I have looked everywhere and it seems as if there is no modifier or similar function that does this. Would anyone know if this is possible in blender because I know its probable yet cant seem to figure it out. Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

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I personally can’t think of a way to get “what a camera sees” to become the input to a texture “in one step.” But you can, for example, composite something in. You can use it in an image-based texture. Or, use it as the source to a lamp such that the lamp in-effect becomes a movie projector. If there’s a way to use the output of a camera-object directly to feed into another material or texture, then I, too, would be very interested to know about it.

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Well you can “display” what the camera sees by hitting hot key Ctrl+ Alt + Num 0 in 3D window.