Multiple Viewports on the one screen

[Squarebananas]

When I do this I usually use the RenderTarget2D class, drawing the separate areas to rendertargets first and then drawing the rendertargets to the screen. However it seems this can also be done with the ViewPort class as well.

A similar topic discussing this can be found here:

[SOLVED] Splitting the screen in two separated areas (2D game)

Hi there, I’m doing a 2D game and I want to split the screen in two separated areas, something like this [image] I think I can use two RenderTarget one to draw the playing area and one to draw the information area but I’m not sure whether it’s the way to go in this scenario. So the question is when splitting the screen what’s the technique used to draw each area? Thank you.

Also an example using Viewports can be found here (the XNA download might not work with MonoGame but the explanation and code should still be applicable):
http://rbwhitaker.wikidot.com/viewports-split-screen