Hi,

I made the Poser conversion of the M1 Abrams tank on the 3D World magazine.

I don't own the DAZ version, so I am not qualified to make a comparison, but I would like to point out a few things.

The model is a joint project with Gunpoint3D, who are widely recognised as the leaders in military modelling, and they made the Lightwave, Cinema4D and 3DMax versions. They also textured those.

I made the Poser conversion, using their original mesh. I didn't change any of the measurements on the model, the only scaling I did was to make the tank the correct size for Poser. I trust Gunpoint as far as their measurements go, they have been doing military modelling for years.

The dials on my version do indeed go from 0-1, as do the dials on all my models. So the user never has to turn a dial and wonder how far it goes. He/she knows all my dials go from 0-1.

The biggest difference between my version and the DAZ one is the fact that the tracks on mine can be animated. here is a quick low quality animation of the tracks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gczxUE-XIq4

Making these tracks turn is about three days work, and as far as I know, there are only three people in the Poser universe that know how to do this. This makes this tank animatable, which the DAZ one in my opinion is not.

We did not make the model to compete with DAZ, that was the model that Gunpoint sent us for the joint project, and as far as I know, they do not even know that a company like DAZ exists, they work in a total different marketplace.

And as John says, our model is free.

(How I long for the days when people used to thank us for making free models)

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