Some games fix this by never allowing hair longer than the neckline.

Clipping is as old as games themselves, if they haven't found a solution yet, I doubt they ever will.

Actually I believe it can be solved by editing the properties of either shield objects or the deformable hair mesh. In fairness, rendering hair has always been a weakness in nearly all games....that and fabrics.

Here's an article on hair rendering that covers it fairly well.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/glimpse-of-the-purehair-hair-rendering-engine-at-gdc

But, as KariTR noted, clipping problems are venerable. They do, however, reduce the level of polish in a game. When I see it I feel I'm playing a version in beta....which, to some extent, all online games are.


Given her hair's ability to penetrate a shield, I'd rather enjoy seeing her use it as a weapon.

My solution was an easy one. I stopped using one hand and shield. Never was much of tank really :'(