Question How to increase shadow strength overtime/distance

I'm trying to increase shadow strength when the object is becoming near to the ground.

Using light source (Directional Light) which is perpendicular on my cube game object (Rotation 90,0,0).

This is how I want it to appear:


#Workaround which isn't good:
Manipulating the directional light will work when there is only one falling object, but when there are more than one falling cube it won't work properly at all. As if there are 5 falling objects each one at a different distance from the ground.. no way :/ I don't know how to work this out.

Any suggestions? I would be so grateful, thanks in advance.

 

Maybe you could make a copy of the shader and modify the shadow strength based on distance between the surface and the shaded point.

If you have a very simple use case you could also look into blob shadows.

It's worth mentioning that this is not the correct way to simulate shadow strength. A hall with a high ceiling would be way too bright.

 

Thank you very much!

In my case using fake shadows is the best solution, it will work as intended.

Blob shadows will accomplish this mission.