- every run now merges the static world: never-fade doodads and interior props bake into per-cell blobs, −0.42 ms at the Stormwind gates and ~−0.2 at Goldshire; WOW_STATIC_MERGE=0 opts out
- the fading doodads stay individual — one translucent draw per cell depth-killed whatever feathered behind it, the lamppost popping in behind a Goldshire fence — and WOW_MERGE_FADERS=1 keeps the dev lane
- merged blobs sort at their own centre instead of the world origin, and their pipeline variants pre-warm so no blob compiles live mid-walk and steps the fade
- roaming converges on the parked shape: a quiet cell re-bakes its fragments into one blob, and a doodad straddling two tiles hands off to a loaded neighbour when its owner tile unloads
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
