Problem with hair alpha texture in 3ds max and unity

Unity Engine
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I have hair that is textured with an alpha channel, and it gets very complicated because with certain settings it appears fine. In 3ds max, when I put the viewport to shaded, it looks like this:

when I change the viewport to realistic it looks like this:

So as you can see, in the shaded settings you can basically see through the hair and see all the hair textures under it, but under realistic, everything is fine, you can’t see through the texture. The alpha channel is correct and it is all white on the hair that’s not supposed to be transparent.

Now when I import the hair into unity, it gets weird. Off the bat the hair looks like the first picture when I give the texture a transparent diffuse. The only option that works under unity for transparency is the cut out options, but even then it doesn’t look as good as it is supposed to.

Screenshot of unity with regular transparent diffuse:

Screenshot of unity with transparent cutout diffuse:

Does anyone have a clue what I’m doing wrong and how to fix this?

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use a different shader, alpha blend modes instead, and you may want to use a double sided shader because it looks like some of your faces are flipped and its causing some of that weirdness.