Getting shadows in cycles nodes

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I was following a tutorial that was executed in Arnold, and they have there a “Lambert node” which gives you lighting and shadow information on the objects.
you can see it used here at 10:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zsR25y7UVA&t=10m0s
as I understand, it’s not possible to get this information in cycles (or eevee) without using post processing / baking.

  1. Am I right about it?
  2. How would you go in replicating the effect in this video? he is using the highlights and shadows to determine the amount of different texture blending.
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In Cycles is not possible without very expensive tricks. But in Eevee is very simple: plug a diffuse node into a shader_to_rgb, and from this into a color ramp. :wink: