THanks! So what you're saying is find something that work when you go into the function editor and goof around with the different materials - correct?  Should I world vs object parametric -? Is this even a choice in VUE Esprit ?  haven't seen that yet in the program.

And, knowing that this is not unusual then am I wasting my time trying to figure out if PNG vs TIFF works best or 960x540 vs 1920x1080 vs 1280x720 as far as resolutions?  And one more thing does the object AA have ANYTHING to do with this or am I wasting my time tweaking all of this given the limitations you mention?  

Oh and if this is in fact a limitation in VUE and other 3D programs then why do the sample renders on the EON site and what we see in Movies looks so fantastic - no texture swimming, etc.?  Do they not use texture mapping but instead create really detailed objects?  thank you!!

Windows 10 - Poser Pro 2012 - 64Bit - 24GB RAM - 4 x 3.40 GHZ processor