Smoke renders very strangely in Eevee

Support Lighting and Rendering
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Ok so this is driving me nuts. I open Blender, add a quick smoke on the default cube. I try rendering it in Cycles. It works! I switch over to Eevee and it behaves in the strangest of manners as so you can see on the screenshots. I think it has to do with the Volume density info: it sems like Eevee can’t handle the data from there and instead applies a thin volume to the WHOLE SCENE instead.
Feels like this should be a common problem but I haven’t found anyone mentioning it so far.

I’ve attached a simple blend file. Just open it and see if you too get my problem.
(I tried it with both 2.9 and 2.83. The problem occurs in both)

Eevee
Eevee1805×907 306 KB
Cycles
Cycles1848×882 376 KB

untitled.blend (859.2 KB)

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No-one? Pls I really want this too work. Smoke takes forever to render in cycles

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I’m not seeing the issue when I load your scene. The light is different, of course, but the smoke is the same.

image
image2400×1350 394 KB

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Now that’s odd… I guess I better report this then, whatever the cause might be :slight_smile:

Thanks for testing my file!