These settings are pretty close to the reference. Change ‘shape’ value from -.2 to -1.0 it has a pretty dramatic effect on how those ends look at this scale.
Looks like this:
wow!!..Thanks a lot for that…
There seems to be some issues in what I am doing because even when I replicate the exact settings I am not getting the same thing somehow.
Also when I render your file it has a very different result from the preview(Image attached)
Posted a reply in Photox thread, the culprit it’s the Step paramenter. Increas Steps to get cylinder like hairs (hairs have more resolution, more ‘steps’)