I have never been able to get one of those paths to show up.So basically till now I have left them alone. Time to try one now, so if there is a tutorial or a quick answer I'd love to know. They seem to be like that smart pipe, but I forgot how I got those textured too. Getting old I think.sigh

Hi dBgrafix - do you mean an animation path?

I assume that you're talking about object trijectory paths. Go>create>paths and choose a path. If you can't see from your present view, try viewing it from the top view. Go>attributes>animation and mess with the trijectory options. If for some reason the path is not selected, go to the object selection bar at the bottom of the display screen, click the little down arrow and select path. Then zoom in on selected path. Hope this is what you're looking for.

1. mahe a sphere or another object 2) if the animation slider isn't showing click the little globe bottom right 3) move the animatin slider 4) move the object(a path will now show up) (repeat as necessary) the resulting nodes are editable if you want it to be an animation path thats it 6) if you want a path to replicate along 7) go to objects 8) create path should be highlighted click it and there ya go!

Pardon my misspelling and extra step notation.

opps that should read repeat steps 3 and 4 as necessary

My understanding was that paths do not "show up" when rendered. They are used, as the 'mouse said, to replicate objects along a pre-arranged course, or to animate an object along a course. Wrapping them in a texture and having them appear as just another object in a scene would be handy though. ;)

If you want "paths" to show up when rendering you'll have to fake it wit multireplication of an object of your choice along that path. the further steps are to link your object to the path in the objects attribites and multireplicate. check keyword "path" in the search functiom at the top of the bryce topics.

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