Reply To: {SOLVED} Particle Hair appear black in Cycles Render

[Ingmar Franz]

If you render the hairs with EEVEE it also helps to adjust the “Cube map size so that the shadows of the individual hairs are much thinner:

Cube Map Size 512 Pixels:

Cube Map Size 4096 Pixels:

Some maybe useful hair and fur tutorials and one breakdown with Blender 2.8:

(Note: Some turorials don’t have the best sound or a nerving background music, but I think it’s the information that counts. I haven’t seen them all but as far as I have seen them, they could maybe help with the creation of hair and fur in Blender 2.8 and 2.9)

Skin Texturing And Hair Grooming Tutorial Series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA59GdGdVtw&list=PLEsrV69Gx1KJ1XlU2ydiiC8L9SW9ADWBP

Blender 2.8 Hair Beginner Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq0q8AmTnDU

Blender 2.8 Eevee – hair shading tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiYk0I3_xss

Blender Detective Pikachu Tutorial Part 2: Fur
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl-eoGuhpvE

Blender 2.8 Hair Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m7uCkUhrZo

Tiger – Breakdown – Blender 2.8 Eevee development test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSc_aH25cUY

For using the “Principled Hair BSDF” in Blender 2.8, I can recommend @jlampel ‘s tutorial:

https://cgcookie.com/tutorial/using-the-principled-hair-bsdf-in-blender-2-8

And a tutorial by Danny Mac 3D

How to CONTROL HAIR in BLENDER 2.8 – 2 Minute Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu6MQC6qdRY