Have an actor draw something on a player's screen?

[hideousdestructor]

Is there a way to get something like this in ZScript:

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CLIP A 1{ //FAKE CODE
    if(
        playeringame[0]
        &&players[0].mo
        &&distance3d(players[0].mo)<64
    )
    players[0].DrawOnScreen("BAL1A0", (0,0), DI_SCREEN_CENTER...
}
wait;

i.e., have an arbitrary actor or thinker manipulate a player's screen, without any menus or statusbar replacements?

[m8f]

Screen.DrawTexture?

There are some examples here and there.

[hideousdestructor]

Right, so basically the only way is to create a RenderOverlay event handler.

Would've liked to have been able to do it directly from the thinker but I guess it's still better than a statusbar hack...