Thanks for giving it a try! I wish I'd had time to do more than just a demo...
I'm familiar with OBJ from waaaaaay back, so it was pretty straightforward. Since pict3d has material support, I want to figure that out too -- if you look at my .blend file, you'll see that not everything is gray!
I appreciate you taking the time to make it run on your system -- I really need to figure out how to do compiles for multiple architectures at some point... Right after I figure out textures, and sound, and... ; - )