3D circular position relative to center

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Hello!

I want to create lasers similar to these:

(about 19 seconds in). I’m using linerenderer, but I don’t know how to calculate the end point of the lasers. I have my “laser emitter” which is the point where the lasers should start. But how would I calculate the end points?

I’m thinking the position straight forward from the emitter is the reference point, and then a laser can be a certain amount of degrees from the reference in the two directions (two angles, one for each direction) on the plane perpendicular to the emitter. I tried to use spherical coordinates but couldn’t figure it out. Is there a good way to do it using quaternions?

Thanks for the help!

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Have you thought about using tools like Visual Effect Graph? It would be suited for this kind of stuff.

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Oh I will check that out, thanks!