@Ceciliabr

I ended up with a question in my head: “Is it Blender creating these wonderful renderings, or can the same quality be obtained from SH3D?”
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The question rises again: Is it Blender, or is it YafaRay that creates the high quality images shown at the YafaRay Gallery?
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Of course i realise that I’m not able to utilise the SH3D / YafaRay combo to the max after just a few days work, but I have a feeling that a lot is depending on the advanced settings and light options provided by Blender.

YafaRay is mainly designed to work with v2.7x versions of Blender at the moment and take full advantage of the features offered by it.
Each scene (point of view) often has a specific setting because the anti-aliasing samples are also a multiplication factor (detailed information).

And if Enko is reading this: The PVR 1.9 combination renderer is a perfect tool! I use the faster Sunflow option for quick previews of sunlight and shadows directions during construction (Sunflow will normally render me a preview faster than YafaRay can finish the preloading ), and then I use YafaRay for artificial lighting and final rendering.

Thanks for the compliment! I just contributed to the immense work provided by Emmanuel to create the YafaRay plug-in.
After further testing, I plan to increase the maximum value of the anti-aliasing samples to match level 5 of SunFlow (1024 samples per pixel).