System Information
Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.19044-SP0 64 Bits
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.5.0 NVIDIA 472.98
Blender Version
Broken: version: 3.2.0 Alpha, branch: master, commit date: 2022-03-04 16:11, hash: rB295d5c6ef5b9
- Also broken with 3.1 RC (downloaded 2022-03-06) and 3.0.1 Release
Worked: Unknown
Short description of error
When rendering a smoke/fire simulation, the fire shows in Blender's image editor after rendering, but not in the saved image.
In this example screenshot, you can see the render result in Blender's image editor (on the left) and the saved image (on the right), opened with my default image viewer. I also tried another image viewer as well as GIMP, which both showed the same result, just like the Windows image preview. The grey background in the image viewer (as opposed to checkerboard) is the viewer's background color, not the actual color of the image, which is instead transparent.
Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
- Open Blender (default settings, right after downloading)
- Set render engine to Cycles
- Enable Film > Transparent (bug doesn't happen with this option disabled)
- Add "Quick Smoke" effect to the default cube
- Set the flow type of the cube to "Fire" (bug doesn't happen with "Smoke" or "Fire + Smoke")
- In the material of the smoke domain, add an attribute node, set it to "flame", and connect its "Fac" output to the "Blackbody Intensity" input of the Principled Volume node (so the fire actually shows up in render)
- Render frame 1, where the fire is clearly visible in the image editor inside Blender (bug also happens after ESC-ing the rendering process before it finishes)
- Go to "Image" > "Save Image As..." and save the image in PNG file format and with RGBA color channels (fire is shown as intended when saving in JPG format, which doesn't support transparency)
- Open the saved image, where the fire is not visible (but its light on the cube is visible)
Thank you to all developers for your work on Blender, I really love this software!






