Visibility

• Add Shrinkwrap: Add a shrinkwrap modifier to specified meshes to keep them above the active mesh. This is an alternative or complement to creating masks.
• Make Invisible: Hide selected faces by assigning an invisible material to them.
• Create Masks: Create mask modifiers and vertex groups for the active mesh.
• Add Visibility Drivers: Create visibility drivers for all mesh children of the active armature.
• Remove Visibility Drivers: Remove all visibility drivers from the active armature.
• Add Shapekey Visibility Drivers: Add drivers to selected shapekeys, depending on the visibility of selected clothes.

Here is a new version of Aiko with two separate outfits: the Bardot dress and the Basic wear shorts and tank top. With the tools in this section we can create drivers that switch between the outfits, or hides both of them, even if Aiko is linked into another blend file.

Add Collections Manually

The tools in this section were originally designed for Blender 2.7x. From Blender 2.80 onwards, there is another, simpler way to hide clothes. Assign clothes to separate collections, which can be excluded from the scene in the outliner.

Here we have created two new collections under the Aiko collection, and moved the Bardot outfit to one and the Basic Wear clothes to the other. If we intend to link the character into another blend file, the clothes collections should not be subcollections of the Aiko collection, so they can be linked separately, and separately excluded from the scene.

When the Basic Wear collection is excluded, only the Bardot outfit is visible.

And here we have turned off Bardot and turned on Basic Wear.

And finally both outfits are turned off. However, the tools in this section are not totally obsolete, because we may still want to create masks to hide the skin beneath the body, and if we use file linking, the visibility drivers must be controlled by rig properties.