Lane D round-7: validate ped-merge → GO for roster flip + full-density defaults + escape hatch
Lane E's R7 merge (447188a) made each ped 1 mesh/1 material (~1 draw/near-rig, fleet 116->24 at
the cap) — the gate my R6 memo named. Validated + handed F the GO.
Merge validated: bind+animate/no-T-pose, skinning/skeleton preserved, silhouettes+atlas materials
crisp (hi-vis/suit/kid), impostor bake clean, identity variety + determinism intact. GPU memory
dropped (geom 205->160, tex 141->90).
Flip numbers (full density, perChunk 16, in-shell): worst street view 241 draws <=300 (was 356
unmerged), 65,899 tris <=200k, 17 near-rigs; 30-chunk soak (726 builds/disposes) leak-free, 0 GPU
delta, heap stable. => GO.
D2: enableStream default perChunk 8->16 (full density, the merge affords it); near-cap stays 24.
D3: test page + harness default to stream now; ?roster=v1 escape hatch restores the fixed roster
(verified streamMode false + determinism). No-flag boot -> streamMode true + determinism.
F's web/index.html flip wiring (invert to default-on + ?roster=v1 escape) documented in
LANE_D_NOTES; in-shell no-flag-URL boot completes when F lands F1.
Only web/js/citizens/sim.js + web/citizens_test.html changed (+ NOTES/progress).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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