I am having a difficult time with SHOP and VEX. I am not sure that I at all like the texturing tools. Either they are too simplistic, or their power is burried too deeply for a new user. Or I am too used to Maya and 3DS MAX way of doing things. Some basic things I am uable to figire out and they are not covered in eith Help PDF or Tutorial PDF. So I am asking for some help.

1. Why does neither VEX Supermaterial or VEX Texture operator NOT identify houdini PIC sequences as sequences? Only as individual files. Those same file ARE identified as sequences in COPs and when used as backround images. I tried placinf $F after name so the format is name$F.pic. But still only 1st frame of sequence is used. How do I get to use file sequence as texture.

2. Supermaterial does not act very super. While it has many field, they are limited to single file. How would,