How to make an Object to follow it's path?

[luke]

Hello,

I am trying to do in Lightwave what a colleague of mine regularly does in Cinema 4D (He's busy this time). It would seem a very simple thing to do. Basically I want to align an object to it's path so that it 'flows' along the path e.g a little like a ribbon flying around along a path. I have tried the 'serpent' plug-in but this seems very hard to get right, to the point that I am asking myself if this plug-in even works.

It would actually be more simple for me to bend a rectangular object into the shape of my 'path', and then to just move my texture down along it. However I can't seen to view the moving texture very well (and thus see what I am doing). I got viper working at first but it seemed to cease up. Hence I am looking into sending a soft-bodied object down along my path.

I seem to be getting in trouble over something very simple... Can anybody shed any light on my problem? (besides getting my colleague to do it in Cinema 4d).

Thanks,
Luke.

[DigiLusionist]

Exactly what kind of effect are you going for? Because there are two techniques I am thinking of that would work:

align-to-path
skelegons-to-morph
using Inertia plug-in

[riki]

Basically I want to align an object to it's path so that it 'flows' along the path e.g a little like a ribbon flying around along a path.

Use 'Align To Path' that should work.

[feckit]

I think this (http://www.md-arts.com/MorphSkelegons_Modeler.htm) tut by Mark Dunakin could be helpful.