Hot to do mmorpg like AOE spell casting cursor

Hello,

anyone have idea how to make Wow AOE spell casting cursor like?
I mean you select spell and this will shown alt text

And question number two: anyone have good tutorial for spell effects

Or how to do something like this alt text

Thank you very much

You could use the Unity projectors for this:
http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Components/class-Projector.html

You could also use a mesh decal system:
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/3779