If I could get my hands on the idiot that programmed the boolean functionality plugin for 3dsmax...ugh! After fighting for several days straight, I finally got a half-way decent slice, for the bay windows near the cap. (The object I used for the cut itself, kept merging with the mesh instead of doing it's job!)

For those that haven't touched a 3D application, booleaning is using one 3D object to cut a specific shape out of another. Lets say I create two spheres, one that's one hundred meters in diameter, and another that's only five meters in diameter. I can take the smaller sphere, move it to where I want, and run the boolean function. What I would be left, would be pretty much the Death Star from Star Wars. This simple function, saves countless hours/days of manually moving vertex points to the desired areas.

Now, what's the big deal, that sounds simple enough, right? If you don't manage to run into a glitch with the software, sure! Glitches like having points offset by 0.02 feet (I have the scale set so that one grid block equals ten feet). That doesn't sound like much now, but it can mean the difference between a nice looking mesh, and a huge mess of errors to clean up. For example:

It means the difference from a mostly clean looking slice like this: http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/.....mostlyfixe.jpg
and crap like this: http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/.....orsgalore1.jpg
or as extreme as this: http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/.....orsgalore2.jpg

So yeah, I haven't given up on the project, but I'm determined to get it as accurate as I possibly can. I want to do this wonderful piece of architecture some justice!