You can render your scenes and animations into separated layers using MultiPass Rendering.

The Shade Light system support volume or volumetric lighting as an attribute to any light source.

Turn your digital camera into a 3D modeling tool with Photo Modeling. It also creates textures extracted from the photos you take.

A third party, advanced renderer included in Shade Professional through Shade 10

Shade supports all standard 3D lights you expect, plus the ability to have certain objects emit light. Shade 12 introduces Volumetric Lights.