[Closed] Rotate towards the direction of travel

Jun 30, 2007 9:19 am

Hi Everyone,

I was wandering if anyone knew of a script out there that could help with a rotation problem I have. Basically I would like an object to rotate towards the direction of travel. Something like the “Follow” check box when you apply a “path constraint”.

Any advice/links would be most helpful.

Thanks in advance.

regards,
Mike

3 Replies

MikeKelley

Jun 30, 2007 9:19 am

And the reason you don’t want to USE path constraint is…?

djlane

Jun 30, 2007 9:19 am

check out this thread:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=98&t=501405

Michael_Chen

Jun 30, 2007 9:19 am

Hi Mike,

I have about 50 objects that have been key framed, creating all those paths would be time consuming. Another issue is modifying the animations of the paths later on. You’d use the “% Along path” to animate the object. Changing the position of a point along the path may effect all the positions previously set for the object. They may still have the same % value but they’ll lie somewhere different on the path.

Thus I think it’s best to use some kind of rotation script.

Hi djlane,

Thanks for the link. I’ll look into it.