Shader Graph help

[heady saffron]

I have this shader setup, but alpha is not working, when i enable alpha clipping it works
what should i do
the problem with using aplha clipping is that it splits the end of my tentacle
i am attaching all the images

[compact swan]

May need to split the out from the multiply and give the alpha the correct vector value

[heady saffron]

can you please be a bit more specific like which node's output should go where

[deep pasture]

Split after Multiply
Split A output to Alpha

[heady saffron]

then how do i combine rgb again

[compact swan]

I feel like unity does already default it to the correct value if you do pass in a different size vector but maybe I'm mistaken

[heady saffron]

i tried this

[compact swan]

You shouldn't need to combine as I do know for sure it does truncate the vector to RGB if you pass in RGBA

[heady saffron]

so what should i do after the split, i can plug in alpha in the alpha of fragment, but what should i do with the RGB

i am very new to shader graphs, using them for the first time

[compact swan]

What you have there is fine, I was just saying that the combine step is not needed and you can continue to route the out from the multiply into color

[deep pasture]

This should work, though the RGB part is unnecessary as Mao says
Are you sure your texture has an alpha channel? If not, and it's just a black and white texture map you can connect R from the Split to Alpha

Though in that case vertex color alpha will not be used

[heady saffron]

since i am using gradient on a mesh and i need vertex color to maintain seemless gradient on the sprite i am distributing on the tentacles

this is my current setup currently i have fixed the texture to check

settings of that texture