Hair with vertex coloring?

Hey everyone! I haven’t done any work in blender for a looong time, so I thought I’d make the characters for my next flash game in 3D for some practice.

Anyway, I’m making a fox and I colored it in with the vertex paint and set up a nice material for it. Then I wanted to add some hair to the tail to make it fluffy and I got all that working, but to shade the hair particles correctly I had to use a separate material. The problem is, now the particles aren’t picking up the vertex coloring, even though I have “VCol Paint” selected in the material options.

It seems to pick up the vertex color when I switch to the original material so I’m not quite sure what to do to get it to work… :confused:

I figured it out! It was a problem with my lighting. It seems like hair is really sensitive to specular, though it could also by my lighting setup…