Long range perspective environment

[danjay]

I'm not exactly sure what this is called, but I'm trying to create the kind of outdoor environment that you see in a lot in race type games. Its where things in the foreground that are close to the camera whizz past very quickly, then things a little further back move more slowly and big things off in the distance like buildings or mountains move even more slowly. There must be a technique for creating this kind of effect so if anyone could point me towards a tutorial or example, that would be greatly appreciated!

[almakos]

try to set camera's Angle of View to 164 and Focal Length to 2.5
in games background can be image which is always at the same distance from camera, like skies, far buildings, fields etc. you can achieve effect like that playing with camera's image planes or just create huge sphere )