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This is a newbie question but I've searched all over and can't find a solution.

I'm following this tutorial to create procedural clouds and it works perfectly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhMQN4vVMIU

But I'd like to add these clouds to a small scene, which has been created using BlenderGIS and then scaled right down. I've scaled it down so that camera depth of field can give the scene a 'model village' type of look. At full size, depth of field has no effect because the scale is massive.

When I scale the clouds down, they become almost completely transparent, seemingly no matter how high I set density.

This image is a copy from the YouTube link showing the shader (the missing bits to the left are texture coordinate and random noise).

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It's the principled volume step that causes the cloud to go almost completely transparent when small. Without that it works, but the cloud doesn't have a nice density effect.

Is there a way to make a cloud like this very small and maintain the density? I found references to 'Density Scale' in the user manual prior to 2.8 but not sure if that's what I want and I can't find references to it anywhere in 2.8.

Thanks!

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  • $\begingroup$ Hello :). Don't forget to bump up sample count in Render > Volumetrics. They're set pretty low by default. $\endgroup$
    – jachym michal
    Commented Apr 8, 2020 at 15:22
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    $\begingroup$ That seems to have cracked it, thanks. I couldn't find a setting anywhere that made a difference! $\endgroup$
    – NeilC
    Commented Apr 8, 2020 at 15:54

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Don't forget to bump up the sample count in Render > Volumetrics > Samples.
They're set pretty low by default.

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    $\begingroup$ For anyone else stuck on the same problem, Jachym's tip helped but I also needed to change 'End' in volumetrics to a much smaller number to finally deal with the issue. $\endgroup$
    – NeilC
    Commented Apr 9, 2020 at 17:30
  • $\begingroup$ Thanks for letting me know :). I don't work much with Eevee, so any feedback is appreciated. $\endgroup$
    – jachym michal
    Commented Apr 9, 2020 at 17:31

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