Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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In this Blender tutorial, you'll learn how to create a motion direction arrow that automatically points in the direction an object is moving along a curve.

This technique is very useful for visualizing motion, debugging animations, data visualization, or creating procedural motion indicators in Geometry Nodes.

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00:00 Intro
00:12 Object Following a Curve
01:54 Creating a Direction Line
03:22 Understanding the Tangent
04:16 Getting the Motion Direction
04:45 Creating the Arrow Vector
11:05 Looping the Arrow Animation

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