I've been testing Vue7 infinite area lights.
now, I found them making too much noise still, and tried vast amount of different render and even atmosphere (light) adjustments).

What seems ot have the biggest effect, by a vast amount, is to edit the light, edit the shadows, and ramp up the light rays to an enormous amount, say 400 or more on each slider.
that gives smooth shadows!

render time is not as bad as if you had used very high custom render settings.

am adding this to my lighting tutorial soon with demosntration pics :)

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