Applying beacon light effect

We are planning to organise a capture the flag PvP event on our server. A nether star acts as the "flag", and we had an idea to apply beacon light effect to the star such that when a player captures the star, the beacon light would clearly show to other players where the capturer is running.

Is it possible to apply the beacon light effect programmatically in Bukkit? If not, does any other idea come to your mind which would create something similar?

 

The beacon effect is not a public one. It is listed directly into the Beacon class, therefor it cannot be called without an active beacon.

I suggest you create a beacon and just create the piramide (or just one block of it) below it. Or, you look for an effect that is public (like the Lightning-effect)

 

Etsijä
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/lib-beacon-creator.179399/

That is currently the only automatic way of creating a beacon beam (that i know of). It is not possible to do it without the pyramid as the render happens client side. Although, it might be possible to fake a pyramid using packets.

 

Thanks, guys. I ended up using fireworks and mob spawner flames instead, as they are public effects