I was all-in on using XD for all my designs until I hit a wall by not being able to create multiple shadows on a single object. CSS can - why can't XD?

Over 3 years has passed. What happened?

This is great news!

Would love that, any news?

For me, this is the biggest gap in XD.

Feature needed desperately

i'm a huge fan of multiple fills/borders/shadows/etc. and i'm missing this feature desperately .

I am very tried to add multiple type of border color and deference size of border in deference side this is one of huge concept on sketch. pl add this feature in very fast dnt delay.

Please add this, it's important for making Android prototypes. I installed virtual machine with MacOS and Sketch on it, to made multiple shadow for my dear 24dp rectangle!

Honestly, how has this not been deployed yet? This is THE primary reason I refuse to work with XD. There aren't enough other compelling features which motivate users to develop workarounds to compensate for its absence. What's even more peculiar is that Illustrator and Photoshop have had this for years, long before Sketch – it should be present if for no other reason to be consistent with how vectors are handled by the company's other major products. If Adobe is going to start pressuring third party agencies to use the application when working on digital solutions for the company, it needs to make the XD at least equal to, if not better than, competing products.

This is a pretty critical feature that's missing. We design in a mapping environment everyday, our paths / map features almost all include multiple fills / borders stacked. Recreating that in XD currently means stacking multiple shapes, which doubles the work for manipulation and limits the flexibility of the tool. Another baseline feature that should be in there.

I'm still embarrassed when advocating for XD because of this. I cant accurately design material components because of this oversight.
https://material.io/design/environment/light-shadows.html#shadows

This is extremely important (on the shadow front) when designing in the style of the Google Material Design styles (explained here - https://medium.com/@Florian/freebie-google-material-design-shadow-helper-2a0501295a2d)... You can see that there are layered shadows in their components out of the box.

Personally I'd be happy with multiple shadows to begin with. So common to layer them up in popular UI patterns now.

I have the XD installed since it was released as a FREE software a while back and I said I'd give it a shot.
I thought I didn't now how to use it when I tried to add multiple shadows and couldn't. This is really important for UI design, so please, please, add this feature.

I agree .. one of the most features that I'm missing from sketch .. +1

I Agree it is the most important feature and they must work on it. It is not practical that we just have one shadow. Even CSS can have multiple shadows

Ok, this is a needed feature.......... Not sure if Adobe is still serious about XD.
Why should some one use Adobe XD if it still feels like an alpha release?

I used Figma for a while and one of the only things I miss from it is the ability to stack fills, textures, and effects within a shape. For instance, I could have one shape with a saturation reduction filter, a blur, a translucent color, and a texture on top. In XD, I can only do 3 of those 4 and they require separate shapes each.

Honestly, this is the primary reason I don't currently use XD or consider switching from Sketch. This "simple" feature is too important and necessary for maintaining an efficient workflow.