Then add a curve with the Linear Color class

Add some random colors to the curve

Edit the curve atlas's texture size to 128 width, 4 height, and assign the curve we just added to the Gradient Curves array

I used the water normal and metallic texture in the starter pack to create this Voronoi effect and masked it with the Linear Gradient

The key thing is to multiply the mask by this curve parameter at the very end with our curve stuff assigned to it

Assign the material to a dynamic beam emitter preset with customed Beam End and Beam Width user parameters

And we have this result already

I duplicated the beam and made it slightly thicker with this material to create a black area around it

Make 2 more materials to control the color of more emitters

a tiny trick to distort any texture

Assign them to the Single Looping Particle preset

Creating fire effect using UV animation with the fire sub uv from the starter content

What it looks like so far...

Use the fire texture in the starter content to create this decal material (colored with the curve)

Wait, we do have the decal renderer but how do we adjust its size?

We need to find it here by typing "decal size" under particle attributes menu

Made this from the fountain emitter preset with a collision node add to it

Add a vortex force since the whole thing is spinning

Grab the previously made Core, Glare and Fire nodes to build this

And here's the result-

Linetrace forward and return the hit location to be the beam end, with a maximum trace length

Then apply it to both of our systems-and make a public variable to control the beam width

Update it every tick, and spawn decals on the ground for an interval