How to draw a drop-shadow on a transparent rectangle?

Question

When I add a dropshadow bitmap effect to a rectangle, the dropshadow takes into account the transparency of the rectangle (makes sense). Is there a way to render a dropshado

Answer 1

Well, here is one long-winded way to implement a rectangular 'drop-shadow' without using a bitmap effect. In this case the centre of the 'shadow rectangle' is coloured in, but it could be set to transparent to give you a 'halo' style drop shadow (i.e., equal all the way round - not offset)

    
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