Each of the 19 ped rigs carried 1-9 primitives / 1-3 materials (fleet 92 draws,
~116 at the 24-rig near cap). merge_ped.py (Blender) merges each to 1 primitive +
1 atlased material: join meshes -> pack material UVs into a non-overlapping atlas UV
-> EMIT-bake base-colours into one 1024 atlas -> single material. Skinning + skeleton
preserved (65 joints, walk/idle untouched, clips retarget unchanged). Fleet 92->19
draws (1/ped); near-cap 116->24 (79% cut). Verified in vendored GLTFLoader: all 19
load as SkinnedMesh + bind walk; man_suit poses byte-identical to original. Hands to
Lane D (D1) for full validation + full-density numbers, then F flips the roster.
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weld + meshopt simplify (--ratio 0.05 --error 0.12); skinning + skeleton preserved
(65 joints intact), walk/idle clips untouched, silhouettes clean at street distance.
Originals backed up to gitignored pipeline/.peds_orig/. Hands to Lane D (D2) for rig
validation; Lane F re-measures gate 3 (~24-rig cap × ≤3k ≈ ≤67k fleet).
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Audit -> normalize (16 GLBs + thumbs) -> web/assets/manifest.json (the
contract Lanes B/C/D read) -> facade gap-fill.
Step 4 facades generated locally on the M3 Ultra via MODELBEAST
flux_local (FLUX.2-klein-4B / MLX on MPS): 23 skins, free, ~5.7s each,
blank signboard, eyeballed, harvested, mapped to shop types. Every
registry type now has >=3 facades (stall 2->4, closing the Lane A gap).
Corner-lot -side walls tagged face:"side" with empty types so no shop
front ever selects a windowless wall. manifest validates green.
Still gated on John (both optional -- the game runs asset-free):
publish the 16 GLBs to 3GOD (needs GOD3_PW), MeshGod hero props (~$2.70).
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