Maybe that area of the track, they aren't loading in many textures, so they put them there and then map them onto the parts of the track where they do need crowd.
Like the texture map you get when you edit skins for WipEout Pulse - the individual parts of the texture are all over the place and bear no relation to the shape of the ship, but they get mapped to the right place in the end.
(Probably haven't explained that well, but I know what I mean.)
Hey D777, these pictures are technically nice in all, but as an artist I
would not be so pleased to see such pictures of my work. For sure, you
don't break any rule in generating those pictures, but showing them will
take away the illusion (for a lot of people) the artist was trying to create
in countless hours. Further, those pictures spread a lot faster into other
forums and might likewise be used to bash WipEout HD alltogether and
may also not invite people to buy the game. Just think about it for a
second.
I would be very pleased if you could remove these pictures, at least
those that are really breaking. You will even get a little reward for your
findings;
Last edited by ProblemSolver; 7th July 2009 at 12:15 AM.
Actually, you respawn no matter what happens after staying a few seconds in the air (I think it's two, might be three), so there's no way to fall for an infinite duration of time. And there is no respawn volume in the way in that area, that's why you can get this far with the select button to get another turbo.
And you just fall "through" the water, it has no collision of any kind.
As for the trick to do it, I believe pirhapac has some videos of Moa Therma Reverse speed lap where he does it... Check the HD videos thread.
I now know WHY there are people in the ocean there.
Doing some phantom speed lap on Vineta, I spiked a wall, and next thing you know I'm eyeing the lunar lander. I then spotted the crowd.
So I wondered if it was possible to see them from "normal gameplay". As it turns out, they aren't all just drowning at the bottom of the sea.... Some of them are actually casual observers - sitting in the bottom of a ship, windows and all.
There was also the inexplicable crowd on the ocean floor (waay off in the crab nebula) , but I'll chalk that up to their invisible submarine and refraction.