My goal this week was to learn how to do proper volumetric lighting in Blender. The issue here is the default Blender render engine is terrible and it is a LOT of hoops to jump through just to get a "cheat" way of doing it. It wasn't proper GI or global illumination. What I needed was a path tracer. I also needed a better render engine so I set off to find a plug in Blender render engine to do this but no luck. I looked for hours and hours. I was about to give up, but I kept seeing "Cycles" everywhere. It turns out the newer blenders have a path tracer called "Cycles" and all of my problems were solved....almost. I now realized quickly that I had to relearn almost everything because of how the new renderer worked. After an entire day in front of the computer, this is what I came up with. Its not much, but you have no clue how much work it took to get here. I didn't even know how to save the output so I let it converge for about 10 min and took a snip of it and uploaded.