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title: "Environment Shaders"
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description: "Environment shaders are executed when a ray hits nothing and essentially exits the scene. They are used to give the impression of a 'wider world' outside …"
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# Environment Shaders

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# Environment Shaders

Environment shaders are executed when a ray hits nothing and essentially exits the scene. They are used to give the impression of a 'wider world' outside the modeled area.\
Redshift natively supports two environment shaders, a physical sun-sky model and a generic environment image projection.

## In this section

- [Physical Sky](https://help.maxon.net/r3d/cinema/en-us/Content/html/Physical%2BSky.html.md)
- [Environment](https://help.maxon.net/r3d/cinema/en-us/Content/html/Environment.html.md)