Ceating a Custom Model Loader

I was thinking about implementing a custom model loader into Mogre, but I'm curious about what would be the best way to go about this. I was looking at this article here: http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/GeneratingAMesh . The article describes the process of generating a mesh in memory. So far, it looks like the best way would be to parse the custom model and use the information in it to generate a mesh as described in the article. Does that sound about right, or would there be an easier/more efficient way of doing this?

There is also a Mogre version of the above article located here: http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/MO ... atingAMesh

I know there are ways around using a custom loader, such as a proper tool chain of importers and exporters to get the model converted into an Ogre mesh file, but I am mostly just playing around with Mogre at the moment, trying to get a grasp of its ins and outs. This seems like it could be an interesting and entertaining experiment.

There is also the ManualObject which is easier to handle (use 'ConvertToMesh' to get a Mesh out of it)

Thank you for the response. ManualObject does look much simpler to work with. I'll be giving that a try some time over the next week or so.