best way to build roads

i am creating a small animation which has this imaginary road going up in the sky and it makes all kinds of turns, bends, goes up and down....

I actually saw something the other day when i was looking for resources, which looked a bit like what i wanted to do.

Only this is with a rainbow:
http://www.mk12.com/quicktime_html/mtv.html

Could some one please explain to me what the best way would be to do this?

thank you.
.g.

In Lightwave i would use RAIL  EXTRUDE to make a polly follow a path and create your road as it goes. Same thing works great for hoses.
-Scooby

thanks for that.... but what about 3dmax?  :P

You can extrude along a spline curve.  Cant remember where the commands are for that but its in the Beetle tutorial in max 3! :)

hmmm...... maybe I should post this as a new thread, but whatever....its a little spinoff from the original topic...

lets say I´ve made a road the way you described, how could I texture it in a good way after that? If the road is turning, bending and so on....
I´ve never had that exact problem, but I´m not very good at texturing anything that doesnt look like a cube :)

so please... what kind of uvw-map would work in this case?  and is there better ways to place textures on objects that to use the standard MAX "sphere", "cube", "planar" - mapping gizmoz?

thanks in advance!

in max  you can use loft object to create that road.it is under the compound objects categorie in the create tab. with it there is no need to worry about uv editing because lofts have their own uv maps along their path

ok... i had no idea that lofts had their own uv-mapping!

thanks!