# Sparkles Materials

You can create interesting Materials for your sparkles by using some attributes provided by Laser System.

You can look the **CGP\_Sparkles\_Variant\_Emit\_Smoke** material that is used to display Explosion with smoke.

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This Material has been made thanks to the great tutorial of **Pierrick Picaut** that you can find below.
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To leverage your Material possibilities, you can use the "**duration**" and "**lifetime**" attributes. Those attributes allow you to animate your Material over time.

Just add 2 Attribute Nodes, with Type set to "Instancer".

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* **duration**: How many frames the particle has been alive
* **lifetime**: Total particle's lifetime

You can use them to change the display over time. For the Smoke Material, we use emission and progressively display a Transparent Shader.

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Pierrick Picaut Tutorial (In 3 parts):

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