The rendering of effects like fog, smoke, clouds, cloudy water, and even glass is complicated because light no longer just interacts with the surface of a material; it can be both attenuated and scattered inside and within the participating media. Volume rendering is required to handle the complex light transport.
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The "dice" "minlength" attribute should be set to -1 to provide a hint about what the minlength should be based on the voxel data. This may become the default behavior in the future.
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For debugging purposes, in the Renderman.ini file you can find /prman/deepcomp/flagvolumes and Option "deep" "int flagvolumes" controls now interpret the value 1 as an "auto" mode. This is on by default, but off if generating any deep images in DTEX format. Use 2 to force it always on. This only affects samples generated by volumes.