Is there an advantage to using an SDF for the foliage over just a regular image texture?

Nice! Given me a few ideas of what I can do with this!

Ok, so on the original demo, the depth texture is used to add the bright parts at the bottom of the shields?

Can I ask, in that demo there, how is the depth texture used? At a glance I feel like that “shield” effect could be achieved with a box geometry or a few planes and a shader. Unless I’m missing something here