Curiously one of my expectation of particles was BEAM. I'm trying to figure out with different popcorn emitter but no success. (texture emitter, ribbon emiter,mesh emitter).
Why the mesh emitter produce a moving mesh even all settings are to zero. Impossible to have a static cylinder wich appear/desapear....
The idea with beam effect is to have a static cylinder with a sprite animating texture.  I would like to make this kind of effect :




Reallusion , may be a tutorial? ;)