RAMWorks posted at 9:37 AM Thu, 29 June 2023 - #4468888

Very cool. Might be more along the lines of Star Trek if you reduce the size of the effect to something that resembles smaller "sparks" 

Thanks!  Yeah, I kinda realized that after I finished compositing and all.  I think I'll create three sizes for the animated "sparks": one for closeups, one for medium shots, and one for more distant shots.  It's just a matter of changing the scale settings and rendering three times. Or maybe I'll just lazy and do two. They made do with just one size, so I can possibly live with that. (This is particularly visible in the closeup beam-out at the end of Elaan of Troyius, where they had to duplicate the effect a couple of times for the closeup shot.)