TNG-Style Transporter Effect

Brushing up on VFX in Niagara by trying to achieve a pretty simple, specific effect: The transporter activation in Next Generation. Made a simple star sprite, and iterated through a lot of Niagara's basic functions to get it to a place I'm happy with.

In-engine, displayed in a quick mock-up of the Star Trek TNG transporter pads that I built in Maya. The effect just didn't look right without it.

I'm sure it could have been done a little cleaner, but for my first Niagara project in a bit, I think it worked quite effectively!