UVW Map + dynamic light help

I keep having these strange errors when dynamic light "shines" on the ground texture of my map. Here are some images showing this:

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/7692/err1of2.jpg

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/7986/err2js9.jpg

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/9823/err3my7.jpg


My theory to why this is happening is because the texture isn't aligned to the polygon’s normal (I did a simple Z Alignment UVW map on the ground texture to save time).

If my theory is correct, how can I make the texture align to the polygon's normal without manually mapping each polygon? Would I need to do an "Unwrap UVW"? If I do, should I leave it 'till the end of mapping? The last time I did an unwrap, the map crashed when I tried to export it, but it exported when I didn't do an "Edit Mesh" right after the unwrap.

That actually looks pretty cool, but I'm not really sure about it. I don't think it has to do with how you UVW'd the map but more of the tag? Is it a Plasma grenade or a light?

I think it has more to do with the light tag having a conical volume.

Something similar to this happened to me, but in a different way.

While screwing around with bump maps, I tried applying one to the map geometry's shader_environment tag; after that, all the lights started doing what they're doing to you.

That's probably not what happened to you, but maybe it'll help you figure something else out.

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Originally Posted by Mr. Ifafudafi

Something similar to this happened to me, but in a different way.

While screwing around with bump maps, I tried applying one to the map geometry's shader_environment tag; after that, all the lights started doing what they're doing to you.

That's probably not what happened to you, but maybe it'll help you figure something else out.

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Thanks for helping me out. It was a problem with the bump map. I hadn't set up the .bitmap tag corectly. The dynamic light now works fine.

Thanks for your help.