New particle system overriding vanilla particle texture

[Draco18s]

Custom particles are annoying me to no end.

 

I still haven't gotten them rendering the way I want (too dark, still 50% transparent, for no discernible reason), then I noticed another problem.

 

The texture file I'm using gets bound before Minecraft has finished rendering all of its particles, and rebinding Minecraft's texture doesn't (completely) fix it.

 

There's got to be another way to use a custom particle texture without calling

Minecraft.getMinecraft().renderEngine.bindTexture(texture);