Assets or data bank for fly by animations

[andreafryett]

Hello all

 

 

I have a client who in the future will be wanting hellicoptor style flyby animated visuals for his project in a specific location in a specific city to show the context of his development. Luckily for me he is willing to invest time and money to help me develop the project (yay for awesome client relations)

 

 

I was wondering if there is a bank of objects or other useful resource in order to build the scenes? Aside from literally weeks of work or trying to use Google earth (licensing issues), I really have no idea how I would go about this in the most efficient way possible. Clearly I could model the entire thing...but who wants to do that?

 

 

I normally work in 3Ds max for my stills but i am well-versed in both Unity and Unreal video game engines. I know 3ds max has a civil view but I have never had the occasion to play with it and am unclear how to access the data bank.

 

 

Any helpful hints are welcome.