Anyone here using Quidam, or tried the demo?
I just installed the demo, but can't do a damn thing with it. I don't know if it comes with docs or not - I didn't look for any, don't feel like reading any right now. Maybe later.

But what is it with figure "posing" programs? Poser, D|S,  Makehuman, Quidam... are they all competing to see who can create the most unintuitive and bizarre interface or something?

One thing Quidam does have going for it is the navigation. Scroll wheel zooms, RMB pans, LMB rotates. More normal, more industry standard. No need for the alt key though. Poser 8 should have something like that and ditch the current camera controls or at least make it an option.

Those camera controls sound great. The right-click menu option doesn't really do it for me anymore.

Quidam and MakeHuman have strengths, but their mission is a little different from Poser / D|S. Quidam and MakeHuman (hereafter referred to as Quidam 'cause I'm too lazy to type it out every time I mention it) is a figure creation program with no animation capability, rudimentary lighting and none of the whiz-bang material creation that Firefly can do.

Quidam allows you to take a base character and morph it. It's tools are "sculpter-like" with brushes and falloff zones. You can squash and stretch limbs. MakeHuman allows you to morph between gender, age and body types.

Quidam Pro allows you to export your meshes at very low resolution (around 4K polys), so that was a big plus for me because it makes rigging in my favorite non-Poser program a lot easier.

Quidam characters aren't as photogenic as the DAZ characters, but they can be great background characters or can be really stunning in the hands of a master morph person.

Quidam's documentation it pretty good. You could probably read it all in 90 minutes. MakeHuman's documentation was even slimmer, but last I checked, it's not even version one yet so that could change.

Oh yeah, you can set the navigation controls to mimic your preferred "big 3" programs, so it feels pretty natural from the start.

In the end I said "to heck with it all" and started modeling my own humanoids to cater to the strength of my renderer.

Poser Pro was to have a Plug in for Quidam, but  EF (or SM)  and N Side screwed the deal up. It would wave great to have the 2 working together. I have Quidam and I like it.