I am trying to do the following:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Animation/Basic/Moving_objects_on_a_Path
However things have changed in Blender 2.5.
You can close a path by pressing C to make the path cyclic.
This is now ALT+C.
I am not sure what tools appear when I press C…
Speed IPO: When you add a Path, a Speed IPO curve is also automatically added, shaped such that any object traversing the path smoothly accelerates at the start and then decelerates smoothly to a stop at the end of the path over 100 frames. You can view this Speed IPO curve in the IPO window, Path IPO type.
This is where I am currently stuck.
Where is the IPO editor now? Is that the “Graph Editor”?
In any case, the speed IPO is not created… or I didn’t see it. And I don’t know how to create it.