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The object’s X-axis always stays parallel to the XZ world coordinates. Thus, the camera follows
the natural motion path. With the Look Ahead value, you can choose how many frames should be
considered for calculating the orientation of the object.
Figure 1: Without an Align To Path tag. Figure 2: With an Align To Path tag.
Align To Spline
If a spline has its intermediate points set to Uniform, this is also taken into
account for the spline animation. The object will then follow the spline at a
uniform speed.
If you want to dene an animation path for an object, we recommend that rst of all you create
the path as a Spline object. This has an advantage over the keyframe method in that you can create
B-Spline paths and use tools such as the magnet. You can also use closed splines for creating cyclic
motion — a difcult task using keyframes.