SuperBeamComponent (Material Beam · Legacy)

Applies to SuperStage 26H2.6 and later

This component belongs to the old material pipeline. The shipped fixture library is fully migrated to the volumetric beam; the material beam is kept for fallback and is not recommended for new content.

Note: a fixture newly imported from GDTF still gets the material beam on its main emitter and has to be switched to a volumetric beam kind in the fixture editor.

SuperBeamComponent draws a column painted onto a mesh — a cone mesh carrying the beam material. It is a separate backend from the volumetric beam. On top of the spot component it adds the beam mesh, beam material, gobo/texture support, colour wheels, prism, focus, atmospheric density and beam disable control.

Visible Results

• Dimmer, color, and strobe affect beam brightness.
• Zoom, Frost, and Iris affect beam and spot material parameters.
• Gobo texture, gobo count, index, rotation speed, and shake speed are written to the beam material.
• Prism uses a SuperPrismPreset and a selected prism layer.
• Focus uses 0 to 1 from sharp to blurred.
• Beam Disabled hides this column but does not remove the fixture.

User Checks

Issue	Check
No beam	Check Beam Disabled, intensity, color, material, and UE rendering settings.
Gobo not visible	Check atlas resource, gobo count, and fixture library channels.
Prism not visible	Check that a SuperPrismPreset is assigned and a valid layer is selected.
Block distance looks wrong	Check scene collision and visibility channels.

Boundary

The volumetric beam is a previz visual effect. It does not replace real haze, actual fixture output, or physical measurement.