Top down 2D shadows being infinite

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On the latest version of Godot, I am making a top down game but I’m struggling to find a way to make shadows that are not infinitely long; where they can stop after a certain distance to make it seem better. I have no experience with shaders but I know that they’ll probably be the answer, i want it to work with my tilemap as well as, hopefully, my character2Ds

I quite like the look of this guy’s shader, Limiting shadow length 2d - #2 by capitainejsparrow but again, have no clue how to set them up - and it seems to not be dynamic (as in, if i add another fence it seems i would have to change stuff in the code, etc due to things like [sub_resource type=“OccluderPolygon2D” id=“OccluderPolygon2D_8qdvh”]
polygon = PackedVector2Array(-8, -8, 8, -8, 8, 8, -8, 8) or 1:1/0/occlusion_layer_0/polygon = SubResource(“OccluderPolygon2D_5m8o1”)
1:1/0/terrains_peering_bit/right_side = 0
1:1/0/terrains_peering_bit/bottom_side = 0
1:1/0/terrains_peering_bit/left_side = 0
0:1/0 = 0

so i was wondering if anyone had their own shaders they use for top down games like mine:

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or if they could explain how to use a/the persons shader and set it up. Feel free to ask questions.

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It doesn’t look that any code interventions are required. You just need to maintain the light occluders so that the engine properly generates the sdf texture the shader relies on.

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ah, ty! But i still dont know how exactly to set up the shader, could you tell me?

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Why not download that project, tinker with it and see how they set it up, then replicate that in your project.