Its not clear here, but are you using the SCAN_TEXTURE flag in the c_trace, when testing "tex_light"and "tex_color"?

The way I interpret the A7 manual, it seems you need to use the SCAN_TEXTURE flag otherwise it doesnt update the variables tex_light, tex_color.

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