Loot Beam Effect With Material - Unreal Engine 5 Tutorial

In this video, I’ll show you how to create a classic Loot glow effect in Unreal Engine 5 the same kind of visual effect you’ve probably seen in old top-down games.

We’ll build a simple glowing cylinder with a translucent material and a dynamic interaction system using Blueprints.
When the player gets close, the cylinder smoothly scales down and when they move away, it goes back to normal size.

You’ll also learn how to:

Create a translucent material with emissive color.

Use a Timeline to animate mesh scale.

Build a child Blueprint system for easy customization.

Change mesh color and pickup behavior dynamically.

I got the idea from Cronos: The New Dawn, and I’m sharing it so you can use or expand it for your own projects.

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📦 Project Files:
BluePrintUE :
Material (M_Beam ) : https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/qdy...
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Google Drive : Unreal Engine 5.6
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I3yg...
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MEGA : Unreal Engine 5.6
https://mega.nz/file/15QyWAQC#F7lDn_W...
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 Introduction
0:20 Where the idea came from
0:40 Creating the material
1:53 Modeling the cylinder in Unreal Engine
2:32 Building the Blueprint
8:03 How to adjust the mesh scale
8:40 Final Thoughts
8:52 Creating a blinking motion for this same material
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