How to Build a Basement?

This should get you at least started. Search for the ‘Landscape Visibility Mask’ node and plug that directly into the Opacity Mask result node. Then making sure the material blend parameter is set to ‘Masked’.

Of course there are additional computational costs associated with a Masked material comparatively from an Opaque material, but should be straightforward from there.

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