How do I not render a material? (Maybe also known as not render the material's section)

Question

It's usual to ask, "Why is this not rendering, and this not rendering?". But here is the thing, I want to do something to not render a material instead of using alpha (unless there is something that makes the alpha not render the material once fully transparent), anyways, is there a way to not render the material?

Answer 1

Hi,
if you are talking about 3D Material!?

if you want a simple hack than you can use the distance fade ... just set both values to maximum.
Sure it would be better to turn of the visibility for the node.