Transparency acting funny when it shouldn't (???)

Engines, Libraries and Tools Java 3D
#1

My object is a humanoid with a texture on him.

If I have:
TransparencyAttributes transAttrib=new TransparencyAttributes(TransparencyAttributes.BLENDED,0);
myAppearance.setTransparencyAttributes(transAttrib);

My Shape has very strange transparency with some things showing and some things not, while commenting that out makes him look fine (without any transparency). Why should a value of 0 make him look wierd? My ‘goal’ is to mix transparency from a given value of 0 (No transparency) to 1 (totally invisible).

Note:
TransparencyAttributes t_attr =
new TransparencyAttributes(
TransparencyAttributes.BLENDED,
1 (or) 0,
TransparencyAttributes.BLEND_SRC_ALPHA,
TransparencyAttributes.BLEND_ZERO);

As well is not working for me, producing the exact same effect

#2

When you set transparency value to 0, the View class still freezes the depth buffer writes - look for view.setDepthBufferFreezeTransparent(…).

What I would do is to allow mode read/write on TransparencyAttributes, and set mode to NONE from BLENDED when the transparency value is set exactly to 0.