Time to blow the dust off here. Current priority is the small street map. I finally got motivation AND my 3ds Max working on my new drive with scripts. Well, not exactly the way I would have liked but it works.
These screenshots doesn't look like there has been much progress, that's kinda true. I need to fix some certain things & then bake shadows. Got two questions also - how to make transparent materials (windows in this case) & how can I bake shadows with native trees (maybe assign textures to them when rendering?)