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Animate objects along spline paths

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Animate objects along spline paths

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- [Instructor] We can also animate objects by constraining them to a path and animating them along that path. So here I have a simple scene and I have a spline path and a rocket ship. Now we can create animation by constraining this object to the path. So I'm going to go ahead and select my rocket body and then shift select my path last and then under Constrain we should be able to find Motion Paths. And what we want here is Attach to Motion Path. Now I'm going to go ahead and look at the default values for this. So the first one is what's the time range. How long do you want this to be animating along the path? Well by default it's the time slider but we can also do a start and end so we can just type in the numbers. I'm going to leave it at time slider. Now the next value is parametric length and that adjusts the speed of the object depending upon how the curve is constructed. And then do we want this to actually follow the path? In other words, do we want it to point itself along…

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