@Maximum-Dev - This is how to do that. Just a quick mockup, but I think its straight forward. I would call this a distance to point function. You can move the point by changing the value of the subtract to a vector parameter. You could also stretch the point by either dividing or multiplying the output of the subtract,…
I actually have a parameter in the material setup to darken the leaves towards the center of the tree, but It doesn't look the way I wanted, so I only added a slight darkening. There is also actually a way to fake this ao effect cheaper than dfao. You can take the distance to the center of the x and y component of the…