Elevation Scale

Create shadow systems and effect styles with your choice of steps from a custom function.

Installation

1. Go to the elevation scale plugin page
2. Click on install in the top right corner

Usage

1. Run the plugin and click the Create a new elevation scale button
2. Select the elevation scale frame
3. Adjust the settings to your liking

Changes are automatically applied and saved.

Steps

Steps are the amount of elevations/shadows you want to create. For example steps:2 will create two shadows each with all the layers you specify.

Effect Styles

To automatically create & update effect styles enable the Sync Styles option. You can optionally provide a style name that will be used to create the effect styles. If you add a # to the name it will be replaced with the current step. A ## will result in a 0 prefixed number if below 10.

// Example style name with #
Elevation / Level # // Elevation / Level 0, Elevation / Level 1, ...

// Example style name with ##
Elevation / ##dp // Elevation / 00dp, Elevation / 01dp, ..., Elevation / 12dp

If you disable Sync Styles the effect styles will be deleted as well.

Properties

• Shadow type: Either dropshadow or innershadow
• x: The x offset of the shadow. # is replaced by the current step. E.g. .5*#
• y: The y offset of the shadow. # is replaced by the current step. E.g. 2+#
• blur: The shadows blur radius. # is replaced by the current step. E.g. (1+#)*4
• spread: The shadows spread. # is replaced by the current step. E.g. #/.5
• color: a 6-digit hex color code between 000000 and FFFFFF
• opacity: The opacity for the color. # is replaced by the current step. E.g. 10+# if # = 1 -> 11%

Adding Layers

An elevation step consists of one or more elevation layers (each layer is an effect e.g. a dropshadow or innershadow). Each layer you add will be present on each step. To add a new layer, click the "Add layer" button below the list of layers. To delete a layer click the trash can icon next to the layer name. (You can not delete the last layer)

Layer names are purely for your organization of the different layers and have no effect on the elevations or the names.