Often you want a object to follow a spline. For example if you want to animate a car driving along a road or a camera fly through animation. With the Spline Tracking Tag such type of animations become extremely easy.

Properties

• Path: The object follows this spline. Drag and drop a spline object from the object browser to set this parameter.
• Rail: The rail object must be also a spline. If this property is set the Y-axis of the object will always point to the rail spline.
• Align to tangent: If this property is turned on the -Z axis of the object will be also aligned to the spline tangent. If you also specify a rail spline the objects roll rotation coordinate will be modified in such a way that the objects Y-axis points to the rail spline.
• All segments: Spline objects like a Text spline consist out of many path segments. Check this property on to animate along all path segments. If this property is switched off the object will follow just one path segment.
• Segment: The path segment which the object will follow.
• Position: The position of the object along the spline. If position=0 the object is at the beginning of the spline. If position=1 the object will be at the end of the object.