Thanks All
...once, when I was researching the topic of "labyrinths", the search engine algorithm suggested "The Backrooms" and still does at times.
These Backrooms are a really weird, eerily creepy parallel world, especially because of their strangely dreary and out-of-time appearance - mostly in the form of these yellowish, completely empty, musty and seemingly endless office floors (in film sequences even intensified often by terribly monotonous lift music).
All the "game characters" who, for whatever reason, are trapped in these parallel world labyrinths appear in these protective suits, which are usually also yellow

Kind of scary, but it's Halloween after all

fast and dirty done - with this 30 minute finger exercise I mimicked such a typical gritty "Backrooms" scene
[SkUp 2017 Make / Enscape / Photoshop]

...yes, all these works are not only of impressive quality but above all so beautiful!

a masterpiece! and in every respect a class of its own in my opinion

interesting links - thanks!

klasse!

klasse!

Boahh !!! Respect!

@ntxdave said:

Here is an updated version of my Hobby License suggestion...

... I have also been using SketchUp for as long as I can remember (v4 or v5, I'm not sure). And to this day I use SketchUp 2017 Make privately and yes, almost daily. In this private context, however, never commercially because instead we run SketchUp in commercial form in the company with at the moment about 24 pro-Licences.
Your proposal Ntxdave is aimed at private, non-commercial use and, as far as I can see, roughly replicates the scope of 2017 Make, but in an up-to-date form, and I would love such a licensing model, even if it were accompanied by a reasonably low price as you suggested!

I simply don't want to have to do without this tool, which has long since become something of an "old buddy", if I can name it that way...

@dave r said:

...Enjoy your "snotty stamp".

... really not a big thing here, but I didn't want to leave you with an impression at least of what I wanted to achieve and what was meant by "snotty stamp". Great tips again (also for other purposes) and Layout, as you pointed out, actually noticed that I changed the png file meanwhile.

Thanks Dave for the very helpful tips (of course - png I should have come up with this idea). It's interesting that you have to make the png transparency in an image edit beforehand - I would never have thought of that...
(I want to "stamp" a kind of snotty preview stamp over an otherwise accurate layout - hence the desired transparency )
Best!

Hi All
Does anyone know whether it is possible within Layout to assign transparency to a placed image object (e.g. a jpg) ?

suuuper!

@l i am said:

...I have a feeling it is not finished yet though
I think that we (not all but many including me ) always think that we have to improve here, fiddle there and blow up too much too often.
With all the improvements that could be made - it is already a wonderful work in all respects.

This work is wunderbar!

@hornoxx said:

...prima Tuna1957 not to forget this "rounded seam" (is there any term for this?) on the edges of the upholstery makes such a furniture model so much better

no idea why I posted this twice

...prima Tuna1957 not to forget this "rounded seam" (is there any term for this?) on the edges of the upholstery makes such a furniture model so much better

...prima Tuna1957 not to forget this "rounded seam" (is there any term for this?) on the edges of the upholstery makes such a furniture model so much better

prima!

@l i am said:

I used match photo and got this result. These old buildings take a lot of work though, this took about 18 hours work so far.
...in view of the good result so far and in view of the depth of detail you are obviously aiming for, every minute is worth it.