How to load character into a viewport without loading their actual character

[NinjoOnline]

I want to display a players character in a viewport frame WITHOUT loading their character in the world (EVER!)

I’ve read through this forum post

Rendering the character with a ViewportFrame

I’m trying to render the player in a ViewportFrame, to make it so that while the player is in their inventory they can still see what their player looks like as they put armor on/take armor off. The issue that is any current methods I have tried render a motionless version of the player’s character, and in a weird way so that it isn’t seen properly. I’ve tried cloning the player’s character and using that to render, but no luck with it. Any help is appreciated, links to resources, concepts to…

However its solution requires the character to be in the workspace. I want a way where I can get a players character, create like a dummy, apply humanoid description to said dummy, and then have it inside a viewport frame

Please do not suggest loading the character in. The way my games setup, I don’t want the character loaded in at all

[Rhaoke]

I think that you would do exactly that, create a dummy and apply the humanoid description and you can animate that dummy as needed. One of the specific features of that post was replicating the player’s movement into the viewport frame, which you don’t need to do, so it simplifies it for you a little bit.