Death Star Laser Cannon

Death Star Laser Cannon rigged for animation.  Should you download it and improve it, then please pay-it-forward by reposting to the Core4D forum.  One much needed improvement would be the ability for the cannon to fire a laser bolt via particle animation tied to the animation slider for gun recoil.  One laser bolt being fired each time that slider is animated to 100%.  I tried to do it with Thinking Particles to reduce the dependency on plugins (much easier to accomplish with X-Particles) but it was a complete failure.

I am hoping that there are some Thinking Particle experts out there who can make this improvement.

Have fun animating.

Dave