invisible blueprint in workbench with create mod

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i tried adding projectred to my minecraft instance using a create modpack. i did testing with projectred on the same version of minecraft (1.19.2) in a separate instance on its own and blueprints work just fine, but when i added the mods to my create instance i can use all the projectred blocks and things, but trying to design a blueprint in a workbench is impossible because the workplace area doesn't render properly. here's a screenshot showing the issue. you can see there's an xor gate but it's invisible:

if i try to change layers with the arrow keys, i briefly see the components on my layer as they fade out to the next layer:

i'm using this version of the create+ modpack and added these: