Showimg Layers and Players

[ffcmike]

So I've been attempting to script those little water/swamp ripples you see around the players feet on most servers whenever near water/lava or on top of swamp grass,
(For those that don't know this is one of several built-in features which is specially disabled by Stefan on servers such as GK and Zone, which has also been done on Classic).

My problem is quite simply that displaying this above the player be it by showimg, showani, within a Weapon NPC, or a Gani Attribute always seems to result in displaying above other players as well, when it ought be displayed above the intended player and below anybody in front of them.

Anybody aware of any possible workarounds/solutions or could I be missing something?
I have definately set the layer (and toyed with decimal layer as had been posted several times in the past, don't think it is supposed to work) but always end up with the problem of displaying below all players or above all players.