Gun effects above the ship-texture possible?

[Absu]

I've noticed if you try to place a gun on top of the ship-texture the gun and effects are rendered below the ship-texture. For one thing this means any shadows or glows from the ship-texture gets rendered above the gun-effect and looks really bad, also you can't have guns as part of the ship texture naturally.

Have anyone got a work-around? Something I've tried was using the floor-texture as the normal texture but the guns still render below that. I also crossed my fingers for some hidden z-property in the XML-file for the guns but this also didn't work. Have I missed something?

I'm guessing not and that this is impossible, it's too bad as it's such a small thing and it limits alot of my ship-designs...