Hi Guys,

I need to create a Light Beam / Laser Scanner. I tried using popcorn which has particles which is great but I don't want the particles to lose shape when I move the emitter. Any ideas for how I achieve this in iClone would be great thanks?

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Ian

Hello, ian_11 here are two ways you could do it you could use a cylinder, stretch it the correct proportion and add an emissive texture to it.
You could also make the effect in photoshop even with animation and apply that to a plane.
Hope this helps


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As Kevin L stated, works well with a cylinder stretched in length:




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Thanks, guys for the help. But what I need is a laser beam scanning the walls and ceiling from a camera on top of the characters head as the character moves around the room as I have done below:

but this is to hard to control, below is how I attached the cone to the camera :

I tried using lights (spotlight) but you cant shape the light! Is there any way to shape the light or if you have any other ideas that would be great, Thanks again.

From that example I'd just use a plane and shape with a mask.

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