Drop shadows as the new Material Design

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Hello,
I came across GWD after I saw the new Material design presentation and I thought that I can build material sites with that. My assumptions are wrong? Is there a way to add that cool shadows only by setting the Z position of an element in the stage?Or is there some documentation about how to that ?

Thanks for your attention,
Regards

[Craig N.]

Hi,

You can currently use the Material Design effect for your web apps, but not in GWD at the moment.  

Material Design is based off of the open source Polymer Project, and here is a link with information and documentation:

Polymer Project

http://www.polymer-project.org/

Material Paper Elements:

http://www.polymer-project.org/components/paper-elements/demo.html#paper-button

Topeka:

http://www.polymer-project.org/apps/topeka/

Here is a link to the new Google Design documentation that will give you an idea of how the Material hover effects work.

Google Design

http://www.google.com/design/spec/layout/layout-principles.html#layout-principles-dimensionality

If you know a little CSS you can create the same effect by using the box-shadow property and setting the offset and blur to simulate it.

Pretty cool and hope this helps!

- CN