Cycles transparency not entirely transparent?

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Hello Blender artists,

I am trying go create an entirely transparent material in cycles (so I can animate an objects visibility), but even when I use the Transparent BSDF and set its color to white I still can see some of the geometry.

Here’s a screenshot of how it looks:


That’s a Suzanne that should be invisible, but is still visible.
Does anybody know why it doesn’t work?

Blend file is also attached if anyone wants to have a look.

Thanks!

MD

Attachments

Transparency.blend (590 KB)

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Basic transparency in Cycles using a special depth setting that determines the amount of transparent faces a ray will go through before it is terminated, try increasing the number of transparent bounces (in the integrator panel)

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Set the integrator to full global illumination and that should fix it. Default settings is not enough transparency bounces. Also, there is a couple of duplicate verts in Suzanne that may or may not be causing some of the issue.

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Ah, perfect. Works now.
Thanks for your quick help, Ace Dragon!

MD