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rafal
But, since you are using principled shader, you should be able to use primvars directly on the geoemtry to drive the variation. In this case, you can use Wrangle LOP to author the `primvars:baseColor_texture` on skin of the agents (I think).

in the past it wasn't possible to assign primvars to GeomSubset prims, just materials, was this limitation lifted

you can probably use Time Shift SOP for that, whether you need to freeze particular frame, clamp before frame 20, offset frames, completely retime the input, …

this may come into play
https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/model/create.html#creating-surface-nodes-in-new-objects-vs-inside-the-current-object [www.sidefx.com]