Niagara Help - Laser Beam // Unnatural Shape

I’ve been having an immense amount of trouble recently trying to create a VERY specific effect in niagara. Before anyone asks, yes I have searched for tutorials and I have looked everywhere I possibly could to find anything, yet I have found NOTHING. I’m very inexperienced with Niagara and particles as a whole, I’ve only edited a few systems or made simple ones, so any help would be appreciated.

The effect I’m looking to create is that of a gaster blasters laser. It’s a sort of laser that stems from an orb and has a midpoint that is thicker than the rest of the beam. I’ve attached examples of what they look like. (Apologies for the quality as I found these videos off a random wiki website). It’s somewhat a combination between these two effects. If anyone could help me in the slightest, it’d be very, very much appreciated (i’ve been looking into how do to this for AGES.)

Apologies for any inconvenience or if this comes off as a stupid question.


Apologies once again for the image/video quality. I found a few screenshots from a post I made asking something very similar around 2 years ago.