Fading Alpha Not Working?

I have an object that I'm trying to fade out (alpha) over time. I've tried with the standard Diffuse shader, but it doesn't respect the color parameters' alpha component.

So, I tried the "Transparent/Diffuse" shader. Even though my diffuse texture has no alpha in it and the alpha component of the Color parameter is set to opaque, the object became translucent.

The cutout shader is not an option, because alpha seems to be on/off only.

My question is..

a.) am I missing an obvious way to fade the object?
b.) is there a shader included that will render an opaque object (Diffuse + Bump) but will respect the Alpha component of the Diffuse texture if it is < 1f (255)?

Thanks in advance!

 

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Is this what your are looking to do?

 

Yes, that is what I'm doing, but the since model isn't entirely convex, it seems the shader has Z-ordering issues and some bit of the model look like they are transparent.


The one on the left is rendered with Transparent/Diffuse and the right the standard Diffuse.

 

Well... I'm circumventing the problem by using the Standard shader until it's time to fade out the object, at which point i switch to the Transparent shader. I don't know if this is how it's intended to be used, but it works well enough.

 

Yes, you should definitely only use transparent shaders when you actually need transparency.

--Eric

 

I dont think its the model issue because it depends on the shader that you use, it should work.