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title: "Volume Topics"
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description: "Redshift can render homogenous volumes like atmospheric fog as well as heterogeneous volumes like clouds, smoke and fire. A heterogeneous volume's shape …"
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# Volume Rendering

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| ![Image: Disney_WDAS_Cloud_2025.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/_REDSHIFT_/Resources/Images/Disney_WDAS_Cloud_2025.jpg) | ![Image: Disney_WDAS_Cloud_Sunrise_2025.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/_REDSHIFT_/Resources/Images/Disney_WDAS_Cloud_Sunrise_2025.jpg) |
| **Cloud rendered with Redshift - Asset Courtesy of [Walt Disney Animation](https://www.disneyanimation.com/data-sets/?drawer=/resources/clouds/)[CC BY-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)License** |  |

Redshift can render homogenous volumes like atmospheric fog as well as heterogeneous volumes like clouds, smoke and fire. A heterogeneous volume's shape can be specified with an OpenVDB file or, in some cases, directly within a DCC with a built in volume creation tool.