So I have this problem where my point sprites are not becoming smaller as the get farther from the camera but rather larger. I tried GL_POINT_DISTANCE_ATTENUATION but it didn't seem to have any affect. I also wrote a shader to scale the point sprites based on there distance:


gl_PointSize = scr_h / distance(-(gl_ModelViewMatrix * gl_Vertex), gl_Vertex);


This works but doesn't stop the sprites from getting bigger, what happens is that the sprite gets smaller with distance but only starting at a certain point before that the are growing forming a sort of "bulge" in the middle of a row of sprites. Any idea where this scaling upward is coming from, is there something that I can disable? I certainly didn't enable anything except this:


glEnable(GL_POINT_SPRITE);
glTexEnvi(GL_POINT_SPRITE, GL_COORD_REPLACE, GL_TRUE);
glEnable(GL_VERTEX_PROGRAM_POINT_SIZE);


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gl_PointSize = scr_h / distance(-(gl_ModelViewMatrix * gl_Vertex), gl_Vertex);

What are you doing here ? You take the distance between a point in object space and camera space, what is your object space for point sprites ? When you have a transformed point in camera space, the camera position is (0,0,0).
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True, I modified my code based on your suggestion for radial depth but the problem seems to be coming from somewhere outside the shader. Is there a way I can make sure that gl_PointSize is only affected by the shader and nothing else?

Issue seems to be with the NVIDIA driver, I ported the same game from windows to Linux and the problem just went away, no code changes all cross platform libs. I was wondering if anyone knew any workarounds so that the windows one can work?