Asset-Importer-Lib is ...

• Written in portable, ISO-compliant C++ ( C++11 supported )
• Easily configurable and customizable build chain via cmake
• Core interface / API is provided for both C++ and C
• Easy to configure Post-processing pipeline
• Command-line interface to perform common operations (i.e. quick file stats, convert models, extract embedded textures) from the shell
• Imports bones, vertex weights and animations (i.e. skinning, skeletal animations)
• Loads multiple UV and vertex color channels (current limit is 8)
• Works well with UNICODE input files
• Supports complex multi-layer materials
• Supports embedded textures, both compressed (e.g. PNG) or just raw color data
• No external dependencies (zlib, zlib and irrxml are also needed, but they're included in the repository so you don't need to bother).
• Due to its export interface, Assimp serves as general-purpose 3D model converter
• (Just because of its name: Assimp renders your program sexier)