Cloud layer over a planet in space with cycles

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Hey guys,

I am trying to do the whole planet body with layer of clouds and third layer for atmosphere. I am using blender 2.91 and all of the tutorials i can find are using something older or eevee rendering. I have my nodes set up like so. I can’t get the clouds to be the only thing I see. The blackness is not going transparent and I can;t see the planet below. The preview of the texture looks transparent but it just is not. Can anyone clear this up for me?

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here is what the planet underneath looks like.

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Try plugging the alpha, rather than the color, into the mix fac?

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nah that didn’t work

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Have you set properties->render->light paths->transparency to 0? If so, increase it.

If still no luck, upload your .blend file?

(also, probably not the issue, but I don’t think you need to plug image color into diffuse node - just leave the diffuse a flat color.)

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YES. that was the issue. so dumb. transparency set to 1 wasnt enough