Anyone interested in client development?

[KLS]

I wrote my eqg loader in irr first then ogre3d (though the latter was a hacky mess as I was in the middle of getting advanced materials working). I'm not sure if they've changed anything recently with irr but it was a lot harder to work with the low level primitives that I needed to work with than it was in ogre.

The downside was ogre was a bigger set of dependencies to get up and running initially.

I also agree you shouldn't convert the assets, whatever you pick should just load them.