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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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