hi peep my first post here so be gental  i need help finding and creating effects for my star trek renders i have tryed everything that i know with out spending money (cause i ant got none) i was looking for phaser and partical beam effects and explosions at the moment im useing simple planes with a transmap and textures, iwould like to do something that dosent look flat so any help would be great check out my renders to see what i mean

I like it....   you use those planes and textures very well...

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wow..very nice