Here are some pictures to show the whole scene of this project. I spent on it about 20 or 30 days on a period of one year, the longer part was to collect the documentation and the most difficult thing was to size the buildings right and place them at the right place. I have started by the floor for which I have made a texture from several Ikonos pictures (2). You can find them and many others at: http://www.spaceimaging.com/ The second step was to make a path for the downtown buildings to use it in an extrude nurbs (the grey buildings in picture 6). The next step was the longest, the modeling and the texturing of the most characteristic buildings (the textured ones in pict 4). I have found a lot of pictures to help me at : http://www.wirednewyork.com/ and at this incredible site : http://www.greatgridlock.net/NYC/nyc.html I have always tried to make them the most simple as possible (pict 5) because I was not too sure that my computer could manage the whole thing (and I didn't want to spend my life on it). Most of them are just cubes with a color, reflection, and bump maps. So I can't make close up, but this is not the point of this project anyway. For the Village, the Midtown and Uptown area, I have used a bunch of cubes to give the illusion of buildings, so I'm sorry but no walkthrough available (pict 3). The only characterestic buildings in those areas are the Empire State B. and the Chrysler, I'll may make a few others like the Meetlif, the World Trump Tower, the City Corp... As you can notice this is far from being perfect, there are a lot of maping problems, and the buildings are not really detailed but this is not the goal of this work. I'll may improve it from time to time, but this will never be a finished file, I don't feel the need of modeling every single building and street light of Manhattan. For the people who would like to ask, I have let the twin towers, because I prefer the skyline this way. I would like to make an animation with this file but as my project is to simulate a twenty seconds travel from Paris to N.Y., I have now to make a model of Paris :( I will work on some other things to take some holidays from Manhattan, I already have a few things almost finished. It was a pleasure to read all the comments and I'll put a link if I can achieve the movie (but don't expect it until six month at least, I also have to work on serious things to earn my life :((