Pixelmon Mod

I've been playing on the newest version of pixelmon and shiny sparkles are finally back. They're different though, and now you can't see them through the walls and water, which is sad. It was a lot easier to find shinies when you just see the sparkle and go towards it. Will this feature be back in updates?

If anything that sounds like a render bug. I'd assume that was not intentional.
If you want a feature to track shinies or other rare spawn at a distance, you could use GameShark instead.