I'm new to using the particle emitter, yes the laser still stays afterwards lol I'll tweak the animation later in the week when I get time, but thanks for the feedback and encouragement.
I'm currently drawing up reference material for a 'landmate' its froma tutorial in imaginfx. Kinda a transformer that I want to model and animate. I'll post up the refernce materials in the 2d sectionwhen am done, should be tomorrow night when I get back from college