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Field Tests.
We ran it.

Real tools, actual engine captures and a clear verdict. Find out what worked, what needed a fix, and where the evidence stops.

A dark noir exam room with a skeleton, built as a test game with 3Dviz Pro Max.
Tested / use as a checklist

3Dviz Pro Max

NOV 14, 2026 / 3D SCENES
Windows · three.js 0.180.0 · headless Chrome

An agent skill for Three.js and Blender scenes. We built three small playable games with it and you can play all three here.

The catch: it made the games more correct, not faster. Three builders scored it 2, 2.5 and 2 out of 5. On Windows its scripts need python, not python3.

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Six ASCII animations playing at once: a maze builder, a maze crawl, Game of Life, a campfire, a bat cave and a snake.
Tested / keep

ASCII Magic Art

NOV 13, 2026 / ASCII ART
Windows · headless Chrome · Node

734 animated pieces drawn in letters, plus a small kit for drawing your own. 733 passed the built-in check. Six ran at once from our own site.

The catch: its copy-a-prompt feature loads the script from the maker's site. Self-host it instead. It is an art library, not a game engine.

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Polyfork cottage, windmill, gate and cart rendered with corrected colors in Godot.
Tested with a fix

Polyfork in Godot

NOV 11, 2026 / 3D PROPS
Godot 4.7.2 · Windows · Compatibility/OpenGL · Quadro RTX 5000

A useful first lookup for low-poly props and shape variants. Four imports matched their geometry metadata.

The catch: the original materials rendered white. A persistent import correction restores colors. Tested color-only exports kept default paint.

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Three Godot lighting captures comparing an unmodified pixel crate, Pixel Art Lighter and Laigter normal maps.
Tested / narrow comparison

One lantern, two normal maps

NOV 8, 2026 / 2D LIGHTING
Godot 4.7.2 · Windows · Compatibility/OpenGL · Quadro RTX 5000

Pixel Art Lighter kept the painted crate face flatter. Laigter remains useful for command-line batches.

The limit: one 48 × 48 sprite, default settings, 13 light positions and normal maps only. No whole-tool ranking.

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Read the result. Keep the scope.

A Field Test means we actually ran the named tools in the setup shown. It does not mean every feature, asset or device passed. Major caveats stay beside the verdict; each full report identifies the tested versions, hardware and remaining checks.

Documentation-only comparisons are labeled separately. The original CROSSCHECK verdicts came from evidence reviews and remain their own department.

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