Animate Objects Along Paths/Curves in Blender

In this video we take a look at the simplest way to animate objects along paths or curves in Blender! Let's jump right in!

[shiconotebook]

For anyone that is having an issue with the axis/empty not snapping to the curve automatically when you pick it, click "Animate Path" and the axis will snap to the path. Then you could delete the curve's animation in the graph editor to set your own using the "Offset" option like shown in the video. This what worked for me.

[chunchunmaru]

For anyone having problem, your object and the curve should be both at the world origin (use alt + g to make them back to world origin) before adding the constraint. Once added the constraint you can move the curve to the location you want

[itspower]

Just GREAT. Way better and way easier to get the effect I wanted to have than other's people tutorials. Quick and straight to the point. Thank you!

[mel.m.hoover]

Huh. Pretty damn simple. I see creators making these tiny cities and having cars drive around through them, this solves my question of "how" lol 😆

[balintkurucz]

Is it possible to change the object's speed through certain parts of the curve?

[nienkehijstee]

Very good and straight forward tutorial

[friendofp.]

How can I apply the animation to the object so that its completely independent of the curve and the axis?

[joacocavo]

Amazing, Thank you! How did you get those extra curve options? I´d like to try those closed knots

[TheAlison]

thanks I needed exactly this and no more

[JohnnyThundr]

Sweet... this is perfect for animating flight paths of airplanes, or space battles between capital ships... thanks for this!

[amateurplays]

Hello, I wanted to animate ice cream 🍦, how can I have the curve basically extend from the start point to the end point (the start of the ice cream curve to the tip top, to make the complete ice cream), instead of a small fraction of it just going around the curve line like you’ve done in this video?

[carschneids]

The object I'm animating along the path is a sphere. However, as I offset the axis along the curve, my sphere gets distorted. Any way to fix this?

[jacobscott]

Would this work if i imported the animation into untiy3d, struggling importing the a tank track animation from blender to untiy3d

[nftcollectorguy]

Hi man! one quiestion, , this animations can export to unreal engine?

[JK-yghz]

Hey hey. its posible apply modifery or bake this animation?

[RavindraTirlangi]

How can I export this animation as fbx? Can you please tell me?

[arjuna-]

can you make a video how to export it, i want to export to unity

[angelocoutinho]

Great content. I have a problem: when I animate along the path, my origin gets all messy and my object starts moving up and down and it gets out of sight for some moments. Why is this happening? Thanks!

[gendalfgray]

My empty axis didn't snap to path when selected path.

[guedralaure]

Hey, thanks for tuto, I have just a question, how can I animate several object with array along the curve ?