3ds max Subselection opacity

[innociv]

Here you can see..
I have a transparent material. When I select a poly it turns them red, 100% opacity.
And then you can see I can't see my image planes behind it then.
This is extremely annoying.. It makes it impossible to trace over and stuff.
I want my sub selection to be translucent..

The only thing that works is checking "wire" on the material editor. This makes edges red.. but i HATE looking at my model in wireframe.
-I'm using max2009.
-Lower opacity on material obviously doesn't work. Subselection is still 100% opaque.
-alt+x / object properties > see-through doesn't work. Subselection is still 100% opaque.
-I've spent many hours the past two days trying to google it.. I've asked professional artists working on games using 3dsmax and they don't know either. :/
-Customize UI>Colors>Geometry>Subselection will only changed the color only not the transparency.
-Driver is Direct3D 9.0

I fixed this problem before I THINK, before i reinstalled windows. A friend of mine that uses max has the subselection transparent, but doesn't know how.


This is annoying me so much. ( Thanks in advance to anyone that helps!

[SoBlance]

Have you tried F2? it toggles the solid red VS the edges being selected. Use once you have selected a face.

[innociv]

Ah I think that's how i had it set up before.

That does work good enough, though it being transculent red would be ideal.

Thanks a bunch! I was getting so frustrated. :x

[L2K]

try to play with differents combinaisons in F2 F3 F4
sometimes i have this problem, and i solve it with this trick.