Ok was finally able to try what you suggest. Had the computer tied up.Was able to get the 6 strands. It's not a bug that poser is putting hairs where the styling strands are. The way hair works in poser is the styling strand is a hair and then a quarter of the fill in strands will follow that strand's lead. The picture shows one polygon selected 3 of the styling strands are straight up. the 4th is bent over. I set the clumping to 1 for an exagerated effect but all the fill in strands lean toward the respecting styling strand and then tries to imitate it. Normally we don't see this happening because we don't use such high clumping or such a close up image.

For sparse hair you can try 1 making finer strands, 2 using a lower res skullcap. (it's easy to do even for a beginer in wings3d), 3 try a transparency map as part of the hair groups texture.

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