[Greyscale]

I did try precaching on map start, didn't change anything. I made some progress though. It was the model. materials/sprites/laserbeam.vmt works where materials/effects/laser1.vmt did not.

So now I have a good beam between the players but there is another problem. You can only see it if you are facing a certain direction and are very close to it. So you need be looking down the beam (only works 1 way) and if you turn your eyes either direction it fades until fully transparent. I used this material with TE_SetupBeamPoints and it worked fine so its not that.

So close..

[Nail]

Maybe this will help:
http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthr...ight=tripmines
Sorry if off topic

[Greyscale]

Thanks for the help, but that won't work.

What I've decided to do, since the beams connect to the player's eyes, is send 2 beams going opposite directions, this will allow both players to see the beam.

And then use a TE_SetupBeamPoints every game frame between the two players for everybody else in the server.

So basically the two players involved will see a smooth beam while everyone else is getting the ghetto jittery one.

[Monkeys]

You could attempt env_beam again, with the other material? Might be that the material was the culprit in your first problems aswell.