Making Buildings in Maya

First off. Hi! I'm new here.

I have recently joined the game development community and are realy wet behind the ears.

My problem:

I am building buildings in Quake Army Knife but its a mission to texture in the damn program. I get strange "artifacts" when OpenGL window is open. The texture manipulating window gets garbled with what I describe as a overwrite refresh error.

Thus I have to swap between wireframe/textured/openGL modes on the same freakin object when i move from face to face. Its frustrating.

My question:

Is it possible to model the buildings in Maya and export it to either Torque directly or to Quark. I heard that there is lighting problems with large structures in DTS format - stuff like self shaddowing problems.

I am very efficient in Maya and it would absolutely ROCK to model in it.

Any help would be much appreciated.