Fading depth mask

Working with AR, I use a lot of depth masks to hide and blend the digital assets with the camera view. I'm wanting to somehow have a play area and the further the gameobject is from that area, the more faded it is. I pretty much had this effect going with a shader I found, but it was limited to the world position or camera position, while I need it linked to a somewhat dynamic local transform. I wouldn't have a clue where to start with shader coding so definitely a noob there.


I suppose there's no easy way anyone knows of to mask 3D objects? Essentially I'm just after the 2D UI faded mask asset but with 3D models.

 

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I need something like a fading effect instead of a sharp - like a gradient - Maybe there's some way to write the "masking" to a texture and hten use the alpha channel to decide how much is left through - idk.