> Quote - ... I was more curious about what can and can not be down in Vue... I've picked up the Vue book Vue 6 Revealed and it got me to thinking ...

Not a problem, but the original post did seem to be worded as though you needed to know for immediate application.

I find not knowing the limits of the capabilities of each edition a severe hurdle in answering questions.

The node based material is shown above (I can go into more detail if anyone's interested).
The essence is :-
the material is in "Object Parametric".
the two Projected Texture node have been set to "Face" mapping mode.
the remaining nodes select which texture is applied where, in this case the Top face by extracting a very small Z range.