Volume effects are used to create clouds, fog, smoke, beams of light, halos, and many other effects that add a sense of realism, drama, or fantasy to a scene. You can produce a volume effect with a volume shader. Volume shaders modify rays as they pass through an object or the scene as a whole.
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