Quick Smoke Domain is Solid Black So I have installed a fresh copy of Blender 2.69. I launch it. Open a new project. Hit the space bar and type Quick Smoke. I select Quick Smoke.

On load of the Quick Smoke the Domain for Smoke is Solid Black and will render only as solid black. I have not modified any other settings.

I tried a new file with Quick Fluid. I get a solid Grey/blue Domain and no render of the fluid. It seems that blender is not working properly.

Please advise.

Mind you I have Not change any settings and am loading Quick Smoke and Quick Fluid from a fresh start new session.

Thanks,

P.S. yes I did search and found 1 familiar topic however the answers provided were not correct for this issue.
A general answer to this is because there are either no lights in your scene or you haven't computed the smoke simulation yet. To add a lamp to your scene, use ShiftA > Lamp and choose one. To simulate the smoke, you can just hit AltA or bake it to disk under Smoke Cache in the Physics panel (you must save the file first).

Also, the default Point lamp is a bit weak and might not illuminate the smoke properly depending on the angle viewed. A Hemi or Sun lamp should be sufficient for most tests.

Without any light



With a hemi lamp