C# How can I return the vector3 for the position of a joint on an FBX?

Hello, I've got a wizard character, and I want to make it so that he creates fire balls from his hand. But I don't know how to get the position of his hand joint. I would like to know if it is possible, and if so, how?

 

you could just create a empty gam object and attach it to his hand?

 

But how do I know where the hand is?

 

shouldn't you be able to see all the bones in the hierarchy? just make the empty GO a child of the hand bone

 

I want to know how to do that in C# code because I do not like operating games by menus.

 

Huh? I think you've confused things.

Anyways take a look here: http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Mesh-boneWeights.html

it shows you how to modify bones. So you could look at the code and see how they get the bones.

 

That is something completely different.

Like you were saying about earlier with how you can see the bones in the heirachy, I've got a bone named "handL" and I would like to know if there is a way to code in C# to use that name to return the x,y, and z positions of that bone.

 

oh then yeah if you know the name etc then you can just do something like:

Code (CSharp):

1. Vector3 bonePosition = GameObject.Find ("handL").transform.localPosition;