Explosion on a touch spell

[ZEAL0TWARRIOR]

To be clear, when I say "touch spell" i mean that the delivery method is set to target actor.

 

So im trying to make a touch spell that blows people up basically. I have the damage and everything working but i cant get the spell to play the explosion. I originally thought i could just use the same explosion from the fire ball's magic effect but that did not work. That led me to belive that you needed a projectile to run explosions which i cant seem to do on a touch spell. But this doesnt explain why Fire Storm works when it is cast on self. I then tried making an art object and attaching the fireballexp01.nif to it and using that as the Hit effect art on the magic effect for the spell just to run the explosion FX but that doesnt work. Optimally i would like to have the touch spell run an explosion but i dont know how to do this. Can anybody help me? I have no idea what im doing anymore.

 

tldr:I want a touch spell to apply an explosion. How do i do this?

[SeraVerte]

you could create a script that "placeatme" an explosion at the target reference. That's how the flame attronach does it. Edited August 7, 2012 by SeraVerte

[ZEAL0TWARRIOR]

Thanks for the thought. I was hoping to avoid learning scripting but I guess i had to sometime =/. Thankfully its easy and i got it to work the way i wanted it to.