How to get joint under mouse cursor like paint skin weights tool

[Anonymous]

Hi~!

I'm Technical artist in game industry.

I'm working on developing my own skin weights tool.

What i want to know how to get joint under the mouse cursor using API.

In skin weights tool, when press hold RMB 

marking menu pops up related joint that under the cursor .

Thanks for reading.

[stuzzz · Accepted solution]

ola, You may probably need to create a MPxContext for that for tracking the mousor cursor 2d position and mousePressEvent.

from that converting the 2d positions to 3d. This will be a decent starting point for doing the math and query the nearest joint.