Hair Emitter Staying As Paths

I’m trying out the hair emitter, but I can’t seem to make the strands look more like hair and less like thin strings.

Tutorials I’m seeing on YouTube seem kind of outdated, because the option they keep clicking is no longer there. How do I change the thickness of the hair?

Update. I found out that if I change the render engine to Cycles, I’ll get what I want. However, from another post, I’ve learned that my computer will die when trying to render anything with Cycles (heck, it’s starting to have a heart attack just sitting there). So, new question, is it even possible to give hair thickness in Eevee?

I am working on a 10 yr old laptop, and have no problem rendering hair in cycles. Try it before you assume it won’t work.

Another update: found out that they changed the Hair menu in the Render Properties tab into Curves and that I needed to use the Rendered view.

@Modron I will try and see if my computer will be able to handle Cycles later, though.

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