Particle Rendering Artifact with Rain

Here's a test rain particle:

Here's a screenshot of rendering with it. Obviously, there is a strong band at the top and a smaller one at the bottom that doesn't exist in the data.

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I don't have time to test tonight, but have you tried with a texture using power of 2 dimensions?

I have now; a 16*256 resize of this texture does seem to work correctly.

Potentially related issue: when a single-pixel texture is used in a map, the client will straight-up crash:
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