Reality Factory

first question, wich im guessing and hoping it does but does ogre suport LoD?
and the second question does it use key frame animation or some other sort of animation?

buh?

1st question why are you asking ogre specific questions on an RF related board?
shouldn't you ask over at their boards?

i'm sure they'd be able to give you better answers than we could

cos RF2 is using ogre, and it depends if andy actualy puts the function into the editor, while we could find out how to use the normal way like every other ogre user the whole point of RF2 is so you dont.

so yea i would belive that it would because all engines i know of, even for the xbox 360 use LoD.

AH...... Right

sorry dude your right,

did some research for being a jackleg

[Speed Options
MaxPixelError : The maximum error allowed when determining which LOD to use. That would determine complexity on screen. More Precise means slower. ]

^taken from ORGE wiki
i assuming it supports lod's but it may generate them if i read that correctly

Ogre uses Discrete Level of Detail which is the same as what is implemented in RF. You create multiple meshes of different LOD and set the distances. IIRC, someone wrote a continuous level of detail scene node some time ago.

ogre, like Rf, has to have its files exported to its own internal file format, as well.

As for the animation question, it supports skeletal animation (like RF) but also supports vertex weighting, which makes movements much more realistic (In real life, when you move the shoulder, the base of the neck moves, but not as much as the shoulder. Bone weighting lets you do this in your animations).