Unity Camera with RenderTexture problem, how to get the right output? - unity3d

I have a scene need to display a 3d module to ui layer, so i use a secondary camera to render it to a RenderTexture, but when i set a background to the ui layer ,i found that the content is wrong, because the alpha channel is not what i expect
In order to describe my problem more clearly, I created a demo
the content: in the center has the backgorund color, this is what i don't want, i want the center is fully white
the 3d object: a cube with opaque material and sphere with transparent material
the renderTexture's alpha channel:
I tried use colormask to disable alpha output, but the ui layer background size is smaller than my 3d model's content, so where there is no background it is invisible.
Update at 2023-2-15-17:49
this is the problem in my project, the character's hair has some transparent part, i use a camera with renderTexture to display it on Ui layer, but the hair's transparent part make some mistake

Solution:
Set the RenderTexture's Color Format to ARGB32.
Make sure the background of the UI layer is fully opaque.
Enable Alpha Clipping in the material of the 3D object, and set the Alpha to the desired value.
Set the RenderTexture's Clear Flags to "Depth Only", so that the background color will not be taken into account.

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I have already tried this code:
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...
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I have found a way to do this.
I created a new PNG that only contains white shapes on a transparent background.
There are about 20 pieces that match the shapes of my level tilemap.
Now I just create a new (white) tilemap above the level tilemap in the shape of the highlight.
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I want to animate the cube over the ui panel.
The Canvas is set to Render Mode : Screen Space - Overlay
The Panel have my own source image
The Camera Clear Flags set to Skbox and Culling Mask to UI only
The Cube layer is set to UI
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The image I'm importing looks exactly as I want it, but in Unity the anti-aliased edges look like they're going to a white background color, instead of just fading over whatever is actually behind them.
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