How to create plasma beam?

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Hello,

I want to create a plasma beam (like on the picture below).

I tried with line renderer, particle system, the procedural laser example and other things.

But I can’t make it look like this.

Any idea? Thanks.

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Look at the procedural lightning in this one.

You can then combine it with a few layer of particle system (PS) to give it more dimension:

  • PS with large particle, add particle material, color.alpha set to about 50% (this gives a core glow )
  • PS with even large particle, soft-add particle material, color.alpha set to about 20% (soft glow effect)
  • Optional: PS with small opaque particle ( random spark or energy leak effect )

Thanks for your answer. I will try with diffrent PS... Hope the performance wont be so bad, cause I have 8 of this beams in one room.

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ArcReactor can achieve exactly that effect.