Thank you, that's what i thought but I can't get the effect I'm looking for. I want a snapshot of a figure appearing to fade from the bottom up. I tried pluging a P node (x=0,y=1,z=0) into a color ramp (white to black) and pluged that into the tranceparancy (set to 1)? However this fades too quickly and only the feet fade. Changing the y to a higher value only makes the fading transistion sharper not higher up on the figure. How do raise the overall fading height?