Random load screen message?

Is it possible to have a message randomly selected from a list and displayed on the loading screen? I want to do a Tip of the Game in the manner of the tips that Unreal Tournament has on its map loading screens.

no i dont think so im pretty sure the loading screen image is static...

No.

Darn. I have seen some pretty funky loading screen effects, I thought maybe there was some possible way to get some form of text to display during loading.

Under senario, you can show some text for the loading screen. It is deterministic, though.

since some JASS is executed upon map start up, it is possible that you could use xttoc's jAPI work to swap files around. this could take months to figure out.

which im guessing he doesnt have the time for or the patience OR the knowledge so lets just give him the simple answer of: no

well the loading screen is a model isnt it? You could just try random stand animations, I think (using geoset anims and what not). However it would only be shown once the map has loaded

Yeah, people have done animated loading screen before, might be some way to but Taur's solution into effect.

You would waste a lot of filesize on the textures for such an animated model, though. Just not practical.

Spoilsport

Might work in a campiagn or something though.

Ya, adding a whole loading screen image for each tip seems like it would pretty inefficient, but just out of curiosity how big is a loading screen image?

Oh wait, I see what you are saying, I tried a custom model and it just displays after the map has loaded but you have to click to make the model go away so you can see the map. That is useless, I might as well just have a regular text message at the beginning of the game, like I am already doing anyways.:p It is just a smart idea to have something useful to read while you wait for the map to load. Sigh.