very nice!
i will analyze this in a few minutes as soon as i got a decent cup of coffee

greetz,

Manu

it seems i expressed myself a little wrong,
with the weird rotation i ment the alignment of my colorpicker mesh, it always rotated wrong when copied onto the template (have a look at my new scene, now it's working correctly)

but how exactly do i know what “transform order” to pick in the transform SOP? in your case you chose “trans_rot_scale” ?! (in the help file this isn't explained at all)

i tried to use the point() expression to get the right numbers of the text
font_object1/Point_Number
displayed, but i had no luck, obviously my expression is wrong again although i did also a new nearpoint() expression within it.

Ah and it's really good to know that the facet SOP is also able to handle normals!

btw nice showreel you got there Tomas!

i see you have stayed with the old version,
just compare the expressions in point1 SOP mainly in nearest_ID parameter and reread my previous post where i explained the problem(maybe not clearly enough)
it is not the expression on font_object1/Point_Number that is wrong, it is that the expression on nearest_ID param of the point1 SOP is using local variables (namely $TX2, $TY2, $TZ2)

to the transform order: i just wanted it to transform first, so that the tip is on 0,0,0 and then rotate so i changed the transform order to TRS
if it was SRT it was first rotated then transfered in Y so it was floating over the ground
the object's Z axis is always aligned with the normal of template point so that is the primary reason for rotating it

i have modified my previous scene to get back rotation of the color picker, but still keeping the node count to minimum instead of this old method
i am sorry i changed your font in font sop, but i do not have your font

hehe
that's no problem with the font
i already found the solution to the problem, the “nearest_id” paramter didn't update because it was calculated in the point1 SOP. Houdini didn't know which expression to resolve first, so i simply put the nearpoint() expression one node before the Point1 SOP, now everything is working perfectly!!!

here's what i came up with so far:
(i still will take a look on your latest hipfile ofcourse,
i really appreciate your help!!)


EDIT:

ok got it, you replaced the local variables $TX2, $TY2, $TZ2 with the point() expressions, I did almost the same thing in my latest file!