How to make default hotbar slots always visible

Currently, the roblox hotbar only shows slots if an item is currently in it (picture above).

What I want to achieve though is the picture below without the inventory UI in the way, so it’s just the bottom part of the UI. This way all hotbar slots are visible no matter if they don’t have an item or not.

I know I can make a new hotbar, and just clone the UI from CoreGui, but that removes the inventory feature which I still want to keep.

Is there anyway to achieve this without needing to make everything custom just for a small fix?

AFAIK that’s not possible, all you can do is completely disable the backpack behavior or have it work like default. You’ll have to make your own custom GUI.

You can try to do that by inserting 9-10 items with no name/thumbnail and keeping track of them internally.