Hair dynamics collision issues

Hi All,

As this thread’s still under a year old, I figured I’d post a reply here before starting a new topic.

I’m wondering what the current verdict is with Hair Collision in Blender 2.78a ?

I’m having a really hard time getting a female human’s long hair to not penetrate her shoulders (and face and neck to some extent as well). Presently I’m using “deflector meshes” in hopes of getting the physics/collision to work, but nothing seems to help. I’ve tried collisions, various force fields as a work-around, all to no avail.

Any hope? Any work-around for this?

Here’s a video showing the effect. The blue and purple you see are the deflector meshes:

Here are screeshots of the settings for hair and the deflector. If anyone needs to see additional settings, please ask. I’d love to find a way to get this working!