Transparent object appearing in render

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# 1 17-07-2010 , 01:19 AM

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I have a couple of objects that are appearing in my render veiws. First, i am doing an animation. The two objects are invisible (transparent) at the star of the animation. They fade up toward the end of the animation. It works great when I watch it in my four views but hen I render to see certain times on the timeline I can see the trasparent objects before they actually fade up. AM I doing something wrong or is this task impossible to achieve?

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# 2 17-07-2010 , 03:00 AM

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Do you have raytracing on?

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# 3 17-07-2010 , 04:50 AM

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Just looked in my render settings. Raytracing is not on. Checked it to activated it and the renders are still the same.

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# 4 17-07-2010 , 05:20 AM

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Played around with settings. Lowered the eccentricity in specular shading. This worked!

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# 5 17-07-2010 , 02:55 PM

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Usually the main two things that will cause transparent objects to show up in renders for me are reflectivity and specular color. If I turn down either one of these, then all is good.

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