this is not just a max problem but really every 3d app that supports alpha blending unless you do alpha testing (i doubt that you can tell max to do that ) which gives you some ugly hard alpha edges but sorts properly or you build you hair with actual opaque geometry ... which will inevitability give you a stylized look in…
I've been having an issue with alphas in max when making overlapping planes for hair. What happens is the transparency will only work if the planes are overlapping in a particular order (so transparency will work if plane A is overlapping plane B, but not the other way around). This is a problem because I'm using dozens of…