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Manual Reference Object Manager Tags Menu CINEMA 4D Tags

Align To Path Expression

Basic Tag

Align To Path

Suppose you’re animating an aeroplane. You’ve created the path it should follow using a Position track, but the plane always points in the same direction (Figure 1). To get the plane pointing in the right direction, use an Align To Path tag (Figure 2). Then, the object will always follow the animation path with its Zaxis parallel to the tangent of the path.

Left: Without an Align To Path tag; right: with aligned rotation keys.

The object’s Xaxis always stays parallel to the XZ world coordinates. Thus, the camera follows the natural motion path.

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