Straw roof

I am trying to get a straw roof texture to work. There is a cool looking texture at http://matrep.parastudios.de/index.php?action=view&material=415-straw-roof, but it doesn’t seem to be working as intended for blender 2.60. Seems like I need to change something in the physics, but I can’t seem to get it to look right after a couple of hours of poking. Anyone know what I’m missing here?

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I’m just gonna live with this for now. This hair particle system seems to do some weird things that I can’t really explain and some operations don’t always seem to work the same way consistently.

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