I was fed up with trying to render this explosion in cycles because it just looked better in openGL. I rendered it with the “Only Render” button in the right sidebar and then set the world background to black. this explosion, while not the best Blender can do, rendered in 9 minutes compared to cycles’ 8 hours.Here it is on Youtube. [video]https://youtu.be/4lYCUeEx-io[/video]