I have been wondering what method or technique have people used for laser shots. Here is a demo using a cylinder attached to the gun. This cylinder has a cool glow map and I am controlling visibility with an on off command for about 20 frames. Since I am using GI the character lights up briefly while the laser is being shot. The benefit of this method is that it is not that labor intensive, I can animate the scene and then go one by one and add where the laser shots will fire. Are there any better methods out there that can look like this? Maybe easier?

Hey that looks good ! Can you show us this laser shots with a black background please ? 

Thank you !! That confirms what I thought, they look really good =) can you change the color too ? 

Very nice! Thank you

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using a custom made popcorn system
can be animated with on/off and "look at" is used to aim it.




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Damn that's so cool !! is it possible to see a quick tutorial ? The result is really amazing, I can use some inspiration for my work... =)

Yeah, on the first frame you can set the color for thew cylinder and glow and that's it....

Great looking effect. Very nice!