Hey Dr. Sassi, thanks you for your quick response.
I attached a demo file.
I hope that makes my problem clearer.

In this animation the forklift drives backwards to align the forks to the load. when he travels toward the load he turns around. C4D wise this makes sense, because the object is always aligning to the spline and looking forward.

But I am looking for a efficient way to draw some tracks for my trucks and let the drive and pick up loads.

Hope I made myself clearer. Sorry for this confusion.

Basti
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forklift dummy.c4d

Hey Guys,
i am wondering if anybody animated driving forklift trucks in a warehouse.
I have to animate a whole warehouse with several forklift trucks.
the lifting action is no problem since a rigged the trucks with xpresso.

my issue is that I would like to animate them with an "align to spline" tag to follow certain tracks.
the forklift drives towards the rack, grabs the load and is heading back again. when I use align to spline the truck always flips 180 deg. when I move it back.

is there a way to animate the truck back and forth without flipping or changing the heading?
so you have other ideas to animate ist.

I tried I with motion path but they take a lot of time to make them look realistic.

cheer

Basti