Having issue with volumetric basics

[nAysik]

Currently working with blender 3.0 and I’m following the Volumetric basics lesson and I’m unable to replicate the effect as presented in the lecture.
My settings here:

renderred view is just gray window
Not sure if I missed something, or I have set it up badly somehow

Would love some support, thank you very much

[FedPete]

Be aware then most lessons are given in an older version of Blender.
And the new Blender 3.x.x has a major overhaul in code and render engine (Cycles-X).

Using an older version is the best way to cope with new problems.
You can install multiple versions of Blender!
Blender installs itself in a different folder.

As a beginner, you don’t miss much with version 3.x.x.

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• You are using Eevee, which is using default setup in a very simplistic way. To gain render speed. So many things are different in comparison to Cycles. You need to switch a lot of options in Eevee to improve renders. But then Eevee will be slower.
• Eevee renders volumetrics as a cube
• Change the density of the volumetrics, to 0.1 ranges and see what is happening.

Let us kown, how you are making progress.

[NP5]

Your density is over 1.

My sun light is on 1.

[nAysik]

Thanks for the response, I would prefer to stay at version 3+ as I still will want to switch in the future, better get used to work with the new layouts etc. I have changed the density to 0.005 and emission strenght also to 0.00x numbers and that has worked well. Thank you for helping

[igorfv]

I know that we were supposed to do those lesson in 2.8 but I’m also using 3.0 and I have no regrets. Sometimes the feature has a different name, or require a different set of value but so far it’s worth it
Also, figuring out stuff is part of learning.