Follow up. I was ready to do the project as best I could using only the simple children (problem did show up with simple children or if I used eevee). It seemed that other people did not have this problem at all so I gave it one more go. I went back and tweaked one setting, rendered out, failed. Next setting, rendered it out, failed, and so on for collectively what felt like weeks. I was doing all the hair instructions exactly like the tutorial so it had to be something else I was doing that gave me different results. I expanded my experiments to check variation on weight paint and bone strength etc. No joy. Then, only because I had eliminated everything else, I add a subdivision surface modifier. Now it works. I had applied all mine in every test I had done thinking, less calculation, but no. Only works after subdivision. Works great now. Thanks again for the help, advice, and informative tutorials. I can’t believe I’m the only person to run into this. Am I the only one that applies the sub/surf modifiers?
