I actually see more. SOmething like 6. It's hard to distinguish but on my monitor it's noticeable.

look at my avatar for progress update

I assume your avatar progress update means you implemented character animations, right?

Cool. I assume the next avatar will show smooth scrolling tilemapper with the char walking on it?

Just a note: Drawing your character sprites in 4-level grayscale will make drawing them as masked sprites more challenging than 3-level grayscale sprites.

good guess, but no.  The screens are more zelda style, allowing better, less flickery grayscale.  As it is, I still am struggling with my show 4 level grayscale routine and even more so with my clipped sprite routine.  But I'll figure those out on my own.  Hopefully, next avatar will show all moves the character can possibly do.

Ah sorry to hear, good luck!

Just a note: Drawing your character sprites in 4-level grayscale will make drawing them as masked sprites more challenging than 3-level grayscale sprites.

I personally would just use multiple sprites for the masking, although that takes more space. OR the screen with a sprite where the black is the sprite area on both buffers, then display an inverted version of your character black/ligth gray layer on a buffer and the other layer on the other buffer, then you got masked sprites that are still 4 level grayscale.

sorry for double post but...

MY 4 LEVEL GRAY ROUTINE WORKS PERFECTLY!!!  IT'Z BEUATIFUL!!

therefore, progress going good so far today

sorry for double post but...

MY 4 LEVEL GRAY ROUTINE WORKS PERFECTLY!!!  IT'Z BEUATIFUL!!

therefore, progress going good so far today

:D:D Screenshots?