eh, thanks... but, I was talking to Moonsword about the caps, you posted at just about the same time I did, sorry for not corecting that before you went through the trouble
anyway, no I don't think it's animated glow maps (unless you have evedence to the cotrary)
there is a very VERY odd sequence of events that I have tracked this bug to, it only (seems to that I can reliably reproduce) happens when rendering something (as far as I can tell only effects weapons and bitmaps) up, when the last thing rendered was a warp effect, specificly when the last thing to be rendered was the
warp glow, there is a very interesting thing about the warp glow, it was the one and ONLY draw bitmap function that was
not transfered over to HT&L, it was left becase I/we wanted the warp glow to glow through the ship that was comeing out of it, when turned off the boxes seem to disapear, I'm not sure why this happens, but it does,
I'm thinking just now if I switch the order it might fix it, or make it infinitely worse. though I'd rather know why it was screwing up, it shouldn't be as far as I can tell I ran a trace on it a dozen times and couldn't find any reason for it.
if I think I've got it beat, I'll post a new build.