Darkness spell VFX

Hi, I'm trying to create a custom item cast spell that's loosely based on hexblade's curse in a aoe. However I was to add the darkness spell VFX to the radius of it but it doesn't show up.
This is what i have so far in trying to create a globe of darkness on the targeted location.

Code:


    object oPC      = GetItemActivator();
    object oItem    = GetItemActivated();
    object oTarget  = GetItemActivatedTarget();
    location lTarget = GetItemActivatedTargetLocation();

   //darnkess vfx
   effect eDarkcloud = EffectVisualEffect(VFX_DUR_DARKNESS);
   
   ApplyEffectAtLocation(DURATION_TYPE_TEMPORARY, eDarkcloud ,lTarget, RoundsToSeconds(20));


Any ideas on what i've done wrong?

Also, I can't seem to find the 1.42 beta anywhere. The nwnvault only has 1.41.4. I got the latest version but hexblade is unchoosable/greyed out for me when i go to create a character.

Also if you could shed light on how the MOB silver sword of gith script works that would be great... I can't seem to figure out how the sword has so many castable spells on it and i would like to try and make one of my own that's like it.

I pulled the 1.42 beta after getting 200 downloads and only one user making comments. My only suggestion after looking at the code (it looks right) is to take a look at the actual darkness spell and see how it does the VFX. It's possible it does it a different way.

As for the Gith sword - no clue as I haven't really dug into it at all. I just add new base classes to the existing code.

Ok thanks for the help.