WebGL particles size

[Omiod]

Hi, I've seen that you've added the particles to the WebGL renderer, so I wanted to improve Fastkat (one of your featured projects, that I made with the canvas renderer) adding more particles and flashy effects.
But have noticed that the WebGL particles do not scale with the distance, as in all your demos they are always at the same size, no matter where the camera is.

Is there just an option to be enabled, or simply the canvas and webGl particles behaves differently?

[mrdoob]

The particles do not scale on this one?
http://mrdoob.github.com/three.js/examples/webgl_particles_billboards_colors.html

[Omiod]

Well, that's exactly the demo I was testing, and I added this:
"camera.position.z = camera.position.z -1;" in the render loop to move through.
The distant particles do shrink, but when approaching they never get bigger than the original "ball" texture.

I understand that enlarging too much the low resolution texture would be ugly, but I wonder if there are other reasons.

[mrdoob]

It's a limitation of ANGLE. You're using Windows, right?

We need to change these particles to use quads internally some day, that'll fix the problem. You can use Sprite for now. Or you can just create Planes.

[Omiod]

Yes, XP, so I had issues with oudated/blacklisted drivers too ...
I'll take a look at sprites then. Thanks.

[mrdoob]

Sprites don't support fog yet though. So probably Plane is your only option :/