Can we please have tips during loading screen?

[Purplenum]

I'm going to pretend like I know anything about computer graphics.

They'd both be images. When it comes to rendering text in a game that uses OpenGL, Direct3D, or another 3D graphics API, text is drawn onto a bitmap and then used as a texture. I couldn't say for certain which one would actually take longer to do, but I'd imagine the drawing of the text onto the bitmap would take longer than loading an image since the zone name image doesn't have an obscene resolution.

The addition of tips, regardless of how absolutely pointless it'd be since the game already sorta has one, would make no noticeable difference to the games loading time.

[HakuroDK]

The addition of tips, regardless of how absolutely pointless it'd be since the game already sorta has one, would make no noticeable difference to the games loading time.

Bullcrap. Who wants to wait around for 0.00265 seconds when Odin is in the Black Shroud!?!

[Magis]

Graphics snip

The text itself is bitmapped font (saw it in a data explorer), so I assume they either create a bunch of quads and render it using different texture coords, or they do it all in one go with a triangle strip and degenerate triangles. I don't know if either are faster or slower tbh, since both would have to have some setup time.

Anyway, the zone name is probably the fastest since it's a single quad.