Emit a visual effect from the player?

[numidium3rd]

Hey all,

I'm working on a deep sea diving mod for FO4 and I would like it if I could emit a bubble effect from the player. I'm not much for creating 3D art assets but I found an effect in the base game that would work for my purposes if I could get it to show up (Effects\UnderwaterBubble512Amb.nif). I tried making the NIF in question the art asset for a custom fire-and-forget "spell" that would "cast" using a script (BubbleSpell.Cast(Player)) but that didn't seem to work. I had more luck with adding other effects via equipping "potions" on the player so I tried that too. I can confirm the potion is getting equipped and the effect is being added but there's no visual that I can see.

I'm very new to "spells" in FO4 and haven't gotten any custom visual effects to work so far. Has anyone been able to get custom visual effects like this to work in the past? What am I doing wrong?

Thanks.