Feature request: More visually engaging background/less intensive skybox animation

[pastthepixels]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. The way I have backgrounds right now is that they're very detailed images projected onto a very large spinning sphere. While this is nice to animate, the fact that there's no blurring or anything can make it dizzying to look at. I mean, Tyrian was able to make moving backgrounds pretty well. But Tyrian was in 2D, and I have to make a fully 3-D implementation of a flat scrolling background. So there's a bit of ground to cover here.

Describe the solution you'd like Maybe motion blur only for the background to make things in the foreground easier to see? But it would need to be performant so it can run on all machines. Plus, I need to make the background look more flat and less like it's a spinning sphere.

Describe alternatives you've considered Maybe putting a plane behind everything, and changing that? But then reflections wouldn't work as well...