i rendered this
took about 5 min on gpu
lets post some nodes so people know how to use it when it comes out 
http://blender.dingto.org/volume/r60385_volume_win64.7z new link as of September 27th
i rendered this
Are there any major rendering time increases when using volumetric lighting?
as far as i can tell you have to have an object that has the volume material and the lights just bounce around in it.
it would take me about 3 seconds to render that on gpu without volume and 5 min with it.
i also turned down the volume settings so it could have taken way longer.
the memory usage is surprisingly low 
Memory irrelevent when not use 3d Texture (not implemented yet), it only take CPU/GPU time for extra particle bounce and maybe complex density shader like Voronoy in case of not homogeneous volume (i strongly suggest to avoid Voronoy noise, try to use Musgrave it much faster). Think like extra cost of calculate all that imaginary particles inside volume media.
volumetrics doesnĀ“t get compile errors on GPU Compute now? cool!
the render im doing now is taking 5mb at peak mem on 2 gpusā¦ cant be right lol
open up blender and see how much rendering the default cube does
LordOdin Where is your node set up? Do you know how to get the Dingtoās newer build for windows 64? because the one in graphicall.org is a bit old.
I didnāt know if this would work, but apparently it does.
Using āaddā instead of āmixā works, too. The mix factor has to be something between 0.000 and 1.000 (noninclusive) for volumetric emission to work, and the isotropic volume shader cannot be perfectly black (#000000,) it must have a nonzero value.
Edit: This means that you can also do stuff like this:
Wait, what is this magic? I thought cycles volumetrics was months away from working!
Downloaded, and even though I donāt have a clue what any of these settings actually do, I clicked a bunch of them and they seem to work.
Overnight render on CPU. The texture is a voronoi with a āgreater thanā math node. Iām sure the speed can be optimized.
So, do you all think weāre looking at a 2.7 release? I guess it depends on how Jehutyās GSoC project (Cycles voxel texture) turns out.
For those who are curious, hereās a demo of what the āgā parameter does:
Hereās the setup (everything is identical for each, except for g, 1000 samples, rendertime 5 mins CPU):
i didnt have an advanced node group
its just the minimum nodes required to make it work and you dont even need to mess with the nodes to get that to work
pretty sure thatās the latest one from dingto right now
Thatās because volumes donāt take up extra memory. They are calculated on the fly.
well the part that confused me was the scene was full of objects
i was also using 2 GPUsā¦ so thatās 2.5 mb per GPU
it must be bugged
I think you can go even simpler than that and just use the volume in the environment shader.
Hmmm. Just tried it and it doesnāt seem to be working anymoreā¦ unless Iām doing it wrong of course.
Indy_Logic, I had it randomly stop working a few times. My fault, Iām sure, but I found reopening Blender with a new .blend worked for me.
Hereās a simple cloud render, 10000 samples, 14.5 hrs on CPU:
Node setup for one of the clouds(visible density seems dependent on size, so the only difference between the two is the scale of the Noise and the Add node):
Those look really awesome! What did you use for the initial geometric shape?
Iād be interested to look at a node setup for achieving convincing crepuscular rays (God rays) through a cloud formation in a scene.