Particle Quality (?)

[IcarussOne]

It can't be just me but the quality of the particles seems to be different compared to previous versions. In Thaumcraft 5 (bottom image), you can see how the wisps don't look as faded and there are no weird borders on the textures like in 1.12.2 (top image).

[ACGaming]

Since wisps are full-fledged entities, this is not related to a particle system. Instead, I directly compared the codebases for the entity renderers:

In Thaumcraft 5, the aura node rendering is used additionally for wisps which makes sense when you compare the images. A design choice, really.

[TheCodex6824]

What's confusing about the wisps is that they use the particle texture for some of their rendering, but as ACGaming mentioned it is rendered directly and not via the particle system. I probably have to look into wisp rendering anyway because I thought they had an issue where they visually lagged behind their actual hitbox, but it's been a while since I checked.

[Vapaman]

Eldritch Guardians projectiles lack particles which they had in previous versions of the mod