alpha channel on PNG texture draws the faces out of order.

Hello, I have a character made in Maya that has some PNG textures. The Hair has an alpha channel. They look fine in Maya, but when I loaded it into Unity the hair glitched up. How do I fix this?

 

Use a transparent cutout shader instead of alpha-blended. Alpha blended shaders have issues with the z-buffer as you cannot write a semi-transparent pixel into it and determine the correct position. That's why transparent objects are queued according to their position in world space.

 

Well I suppose that works. But is there no way to have it drawn with the correct Z-Buffer and contain semi-transparency?

Also something else became apparent to when I put it your fix. Errors of the smooth angle. How can I get it to where all of the sharp edges are smoothed out?

 

Unfortunately no, or at least not that I know of. I've been strugglilg with the same thing, trying different shaders and settings. To summarize: if you're using an alpha blended shader, there's no way for Unity to know exactly which part of the model should be drawn first and if you use a cutout shader, you can't have semi-transparency and you get jaggy edges. Sadly there is no other alternative so far so you just have to choose between one of these.

I think the topic shold be moved to the Shader board