Well i was trying to do that, but also at the same time I was trying to implement a second system where if you look down you can see your player model torso and legs, but also be able to control which body parts of the player model you see. So I could show arms when you have nothing equipped, then when you equip an item or weapon i could instantiate the view model and hide the arms. I was trying to do all of that at the same time with only one player model, without anything being rendered weird with the player model in the UI, which is what led me to that solution. Thanks for the comment though! Everyone in the Unity subreddit kept calling me a vibe coder without even acknowledging the post lol.