Texture

Property of: Beam

Value Type: Content

Description:

The content ID of the texture to be displayed on the Beam.

If the Texture property of the beam is not set the beam will be displayed as a solid line. This also occurs when the texture is set to an invalid content ID or the image associated with the texture has not yet loaded.

The appearance of the texture can be further modified by other Beam properties including Beam/Color and Beam/Transparency.

The scaling of the texture is determined by the Beam/TextureMode, Beam/TextureLength, Beam/Width0 and Beam/Width1 properties.

Code Samples

Creating a Beam From Scratch

This code sample demonstrates how a Beam effect can be created from scratch by creating a Beam, setting all of its properties and configuring it’s Attachments. See below for an image of the final result:

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				Creating a Beam From Scratch

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			-- create attachments
local att0 = Instance.new("Attachment")
local att1 = Instance.new("Attachment")

-- parent to terrain (can be part instead)
att0.Parent = workspace.Terrain
att1.Parent = workspace.Terrain

-- position attachments
att0.Position = Vector3.new(0, 10, 0)
att1.Position = Vector3.new(0, 10, 10)

-- create beam
local beam = Instance.new("Beam")
beam.Attachment0 = att0
beam.Attachment1 = att1 

-- appearance properties
beam.Color = ColorSequence.new({ -- a color sequence shifting from white to blue
		ColorSequenceKeypoint.new(0, Color3.fromRGB(255, 255, 255)),
		ColorSequenceKeypoint.new(1, Color3.fromRGB(0, 255, 255))
	}
)
beam.LightEmission = 1 -- use additive blending
beam.LightInfluence = 0 -- beam not influenced by light
beam.Texture = "rbxasset://textures/particles/sparkles_main.dds" -- a built in sparkle texture
beam.TextureMode = Enum.TextureMode.Wrap -- wrap so length can be set by TextureLength
beam.TextureLength = 1 -- repeating texture is 1 stud long 
beam.TextureSpeed = 1 -- slow texture speed
beam.Transparency = NumberSequence.new({ -- beam fades out at the end
		NumberSequenceKeypoint.new(0, 0),
		NumberSequenceKeypoint.new(0.8, 0),
		NumberSequenceKeypoint.new(1, 1)
	}
)
beam.ZOffset = 0 -- render at the position of the beam without offset 

-- shape properties
beam.CurveSize0 = 2 -- create a curved beam
beam.CurveSize1 = -2 -- create a curved beam
beam.FaceCamera = true -- beam is visible from every angle 
beam.Segments = 10 -- default curve resolution  
beam.Width0 = 0.2 -- starts small
beam.Width1 = 2 -- ends big

-- parent beam
beam.Enabled = true
beam.Parent = att0
		
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