SgDropDecal wont bloody drop

Adding to the allready extensive tastelessness to "my game", i thought it would be cool if the player sprayed an improportional amount of blood when they took damage. For this i use a particle emitter that works pretty well, but also i create a sgDecalProjector under the victims feet. It looks like this:

%puddle = new sgDecalProjector()
{

dataBlock = "bloodPuddle1";
position = %defender.getPosition();
rotation = "1 0 0 0";
scale = "1 1 1";
canSaveDynamicFields = "1";
};

MissionCleanup.add(%puddle);

Although for some reason, this does not work, the console log tells me that: "no drop object was found".

Adding to my frustration, sgDecalProjectors seem entirely undocumented. Anyone have any idea of what went wrong here?