What I'm working on is a mod that involves the player moving their crosshairs to target a position for an attack. However, I am in need of some type of marker to follow the crosshairs. Something simple such as a beam of light would suffice just fine. There are several methods I think may work but this is out of my usual grounds so I'm not sure which would be the best or which may not even work:

-Could create a Light object to follow it around. The only problem is I don't think there is a way to make it a directional, colored beam that points towards the ground.
-Could use fancy particle effects but I doubt that would give the desired result.
-Could actually find a way to make a nif file that is nothing but a directional beam of light. No clue on exactly how to do this though.

Any help would be appreciated on this subject as it's strangely the toughest part of this mod. Thanks in advance.

Am I correct in reading that you simply need a beam of light? If that's the case, why not use one of the FXLightBeam's found under Static->Effects?

Hmmm. I suppose I could give that a shot then. Completely overlooked that.

EDIT: With some work, that worked out just fine. Now I have a nice beam marker to rain death upon masses of foes with.