How to animate an object along a path
- Add a spline object to your scene. You can use any preset spline, or draw your own with the freehand spline tool.
- Add an object you want to animate. From this point on, it will be referred to as Cone because that’s what I chose.
- Select the Cone.
- In the Object Manager, choose Tags->Cinema 4D Tags->Align To Spline
- In the attributes manager click on the picker next to the “Spline” field. Click on the spline object in the objects manager.
- Ctrl-Click on the “Position” parameter in the attributes manager. This will set a 0% key on frame 0.
- Advance your time-slider to the final frame of your animation (probably frame 90).
- Set the “Position” parameter to 100% in the attributes manager.
- Ctrl-Click on the gray dot to the left of the “Position” parameter to add a second keyframe.
- Press Play.