Hi Matt – In general, no I would use the same workflow in 2.79 as I did here in 2.66. While I was looking forward to the cool new hair features developed for Cosmos Laundromat, to my knowledge they still haven’t made it into Blender. I’m not sure if they would drastically affect the workflow in this course, but they would be the first new features to the hair system in a long time.
I should also say that since doing this course, I haven’t actually had many hair-based projects. While I would likely recommend starting with the hair BSDF due it being specifically designed for hair, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with reverting to a non-hair BSDF material if it looks better.
Thanks for taking the course and for the positive feedback!
