so... If I'm using the GA lighting (for shorter render times for animations) is there a way to get less graininess w/out lighting up my exteriors by hand?  The whole reason I bought vue was for the animation and beauty of lighting by loading an atmosphere... I don't want to go putting lights in by hand to fake the ambient.

I read on Ryan Spaulding's site that he suggested increasing the lighting quality to +1 or +2... but then again render times start going thru the roof w/ +2 or better.  For animations I have to have them quicker than that or my bosses are not going to be thrilled with me.  They'll just say 'forget the wind in the trees and get me the flyaround and I'll be back on the VIZ chain gang singing spirituals as I hammer at obscure pointless setting after obscure pointless setting... tweak, render, tweak render, oooweeooo hoooo chi minh....

I will boost the OAA and TAA up to the 80 percents and see if that works... and increase my light qual to +1 for now... hopefully that will do the trick.