How to make Star Wars laser blaster effects

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I am currently working on a star wars project on my own but figured out that I don’t know how to make the laser blaster effects like how people do in blender.

reference in blender: Star Wars Blasters In Blender - YouTube

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Hey there @BrianC888666! Welcome to the community! So the idea is basically the same if you want to use particles, then you’d just make a tube with an emissive material on it, and fire those tubes. However this changes a bit if you were making a game instead of an animation due to requiring hit detection.

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For the material you’d use:

For learning Niagara:

And a tutorial on a beam effect (this is only if you go the 2D without volume route or need it to be accurate):