Volumetrics in reflections? (Eevee)

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This example image should show what I am meaning:

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The smoke cloud is not visible in the water. I don’t know if there is any way to make it visible. Is there a way, or does Eevee not support anything like this at all?

Note that this is in Blender 2.81 because for this particular render I made it a while back and I want to render it again. I tested volumetrics in 2.83 and it still doesn’t seem to work anyway.
If it can work in any later version, that would be good to know if it does become the only option. I could probably reference the same bake files that it is located in.

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Hey

With EEVEE you want to make sure to have reflection plane light probe and set volumetric render clipping settings to as large as the longest reflection desired. See if that helps

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Thanks for the response.
I tried what you suggested, but it doesn’t work.

I tried to find further information on the internet about it, and came across the Blender Manual which actually says it cannot be done.
https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/eevee/limitations.html#volumetrics

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I can try and do it by compositing or with Cycles, but it might just be easier to remove the water entirely.

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Way too late on this :slight_smile:

…But now we can convert the Volume to Mesh, in 3.4 using geometric nodes, and we can now have a low-res geometry clone of the volume, inside of it, that will show up on the reflections.

Better late than never right :sweat_smile: