Hey thanks, I tried turning off just the first two options and it started working, at least with the first model I tried it on so far. The text was white even when bugged.
Mesh Lab, there aren't really any export settings I can think of that should cause problems. Not sure if it lets me post links in the comments but here's a screenshot of the only dialogue that comes up upon exporting from Mesh Lab:
So, I downloaded this and managed to get models that didn't work originally to sorta work, but they load flattened, like 2 dimensional versions of the model I tried to import.