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Clipping Is For Toenails.Clipping is what keeps characters, objects, and levels from blending in with each other. It allows a grenade to land on the roof or an enemy to bump into a table. When there is no environmental clipping, your character is free to roam wherever he or she pleases because nothing restricts your movement. N-Philes doesn't like to be restricted. You want to walk through a tree? Go ahead. How about float on air? By all means.
Take a look at Leon walking across the bridge at the beginning of the game.
That's quite an angle on the car wreckage, but what happens when we continue to walk beyond the bridge? What exactly is over there? Well, see for yourself.
Upon reaching the land on the other side of the bridge, Leon was surrounded by trees and leaves. Everything looks relatively "normal." There's even a nice little fence for detail. However, when Leon continues to walk forward some more, things get dark ... literally. The far trees turn black and before you know it, all you see is Leon in front of a pitch black screen. Walk forward some more and you've reached heaven, errr, I mean you've reached beyond the outer limits of the entire level. Leon is now completely surrounded by white! Interestingly, your shadow still remains intact even though no land is below you. The last picture shows Leon turned around after moving beyond the level. Look closely and you can even see the canyon below the surface.
If Leon continued to walk along the river, he comes across a waterfall. Now this may not be a big deal, but walking Leon into the streaming water produces very interesting results. Leon's hair completely vanishes upon touching the water! Apparently the free-flowing dreamboat hair was not programmed to respond to liquid, so instead of seeing wet hair, we see what Leon looked like before he had blonde hair. Perhaps Capcom initially intended Leon to have brown hair? Your guess is as good as ours.
Even Ashley has brown under her blonde hair. Wait a minute ... how did Ashley get there!?
