[Char] Winnie (Final version)

[rewlf2]

Introduction
Winnie is a wind-based character.
She is the replacement of my rep character because I think my designs cannot possibly be implemented in LF2 system.

The inspiration of Winnie is Windy in LFO.
Although LFO is dead and U1, its company is no more,
I don't wish to copy Windy's designs and moves to Winnie for former's lack of creativity.

Description
Winnie is designed to be at par with a fighter, and capable to be used by AI.

Winnie features:
4 moves, 1 of them is special that makes use of type: 3 character property (click here)

Sprite set with improved transition frames

If you want a more humane description, here it goes:
Under the look of an innocent blonde girl lies the wrath of a Tornado. Winnie is a wind-based character who flails wind blows and transforms into one. While she looks unskilled, clumsy and frail, she is particularly deadly in composing chain attacks and consumes less mana than other characters. Her unique transformation move, Tornado Spirit renders her invincible but drains her health and stops mana regeneration. Making use of her uneven capabilities will require considerable skill in prediction.

Move list

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Move name
Input key
MP cost
Damage
Description

Wind Blast
D→A (AA)
8% + 8% + 8% MP
30 damage
Three projectiles traveling in straight line, can manually change up/down direction.
Size of second projectile is larger.

Gust of Wind
D→J / Wind Blast + J
30% MP
40 damage
Summons a wind that travels in straight line slowly for half of screen, then disperses.
Cannot control direction.
If enemy is stunned by wind, he will be probably knocked away (dependent on initial knock distance)

Razor Dance
D↓A (A)
0% + 20% MP
25 + 25 + 60 damage
A combo melee attack:
First attack is a short clockwise spin kick to the front which stuns.
Pressing A will continue with a diagonal slap when landing and a third attack which she draws a slash.

Tornado Spirit
D↑J / Catching +J
30% +?
25 damage
Transforms into her true form, becomes invulnerable. enemies in area will be rapidly damaged and repelled.
Drains 2.6% HP per second until HP is completely depleted, 4 seconds have passed or this move is cancelled. She does not recover MP in Tornado Spirit.
Computers will avoid Winnie.

↳ Move (Z-axis)
↳ ↑ or ↓
0% MP
Winnie can only move is Z-axis, but her movement speed is increased.

↳ Downburst
↳ A
15% MP
70 damage
Causes a stream of wind to fall from sky to a point directly in front of Winnie, knocking enemies to earth in a vertical column area and destroying any weapon in the path, unless the light weapon is on ground.
This attack is unblockable.
Cancels Tornado Spirit.

↳ Launch Tornado
↳ J
30% MP
25 damage
Launch Tornado which propagates forward with constant speed for 0.4 screen length, then disperses.
This tornado is similar to Tornado spirit but propels forward.
Cancels Tornado Spirit.

↳ Cancel
↳ D
0% MP
Cancel
Automatically cast when HP runs out.
Cancels Tornado Spirit.

Progress

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v9:
Extended readme
Increased damage of Tornado Spirit and Launch Tornado from 4% to 5%
Reduced startup and cooldown interval of Tornado spirit from 14tu to 11tu
Basic punch can now reach further in the back
Reduced whole interval of Run attack from 10tu to 8tu, attack interval from 4tu to 3tu
Added avoidance AI on Gust of Wind and Launch Tornado (due to limitations AI would not completely avoid Launched Tornado)

v8:
Improved graphic of Gust of Wind
Improved graphic of hair when running
Gust of wind now spawns further in front of winnie but is placed lower and speeds up slower
Added transition frame for Downburst and Launch Tornado
Dash attacks now break defend
MP cost of Gust of Wind and Tornado Spirit are reduced from 40% to 30%

v7:
Fixed standing and walking weapon position
Picking heavy weapon and immediately pressing D will no longer go to defend frame
Pressing J when in Tornado Launch will no longer transform into Gust of Wind

Increased damage of Gust from 30 to 40
Changed MP cost of Razor Dance from 5%+15% to 0%+20%

Added shade at neck

v6:
Using Tornado Spirit and related moves will (normally) no longer disable F7, F8 and F9.

v5:
Changed Razor dance, 2nd and 3rd hits merged, MP cost becomes 5% + 15%
Reduced Wind Blast's MP cost from 10% to 8%

Improved TS and related sprites
Added 4s timer on TS
Aded basic AI

Adjusted volume of sound effect

Increased basic punch range
Fixed super punch causing infinite attacks at particular range

v4:
This and onwards are stable versions.
Increased Tornado Launch's MP cost from 20% to 30%
Increased Downburst's MP cost from 10% to 15%
Removed z-axis movement of Razor Dance's final slash after dash attack (>>J (A)+ DvAAA)
It also fixed a bug where slash can be dispersed by Blastpush (I mistook its type as 3006)

Replaced many sound effects

Improved sprites of all moves
Added black border on character
Finetuned portrait

v3:
Added moves: Razor Dance and Tornado Spirit
Corrected weapon positions
Corrected body positions of moves

Fixed centering of normal and run weapon swings
Fixed weapon directions of weapon throws
Improved transitions of some actions
Improved back hand in weapon attack frames

v2:
Added moves: Wind Blast and Gust of Wind

Fixed centering of normal and run weapon swings
Fixed weapon directions of weapon throws
Improved transitions of some actions
Improved back hand in weapon attack and punch frames

v1 / P2:
Improved many transitions:

Motion of legs in running and running with heavy object
Broken defend
Dash attack
Halved rate of rolling, fixed centering
Quick fix for running weapon attack
Blockstun
Injured centering
Withdrawal from back attacks
Stance face is slight changed
Dress color palette partly fixed
Eye color unified
Centering of some other things

P1:
Winnie is as complete as a template in P1.

Includes actual sprites, but some could have improvement
Includes all actions
No moves
Data file is stable

P0:
Prototype sprites include all non-move sprites excluding
super_punch, run_attack, jump_attack, dash_attack

Makeshift data file (from firen)
Moves and 4 attacks mentioned above are not adjusted and will show incorrect pictures

Demonstrations
Listed by reverse chronological order:

v8:

Wind Blast (Click to View)

Gust of Wind (Click to View)

Razor Dance (Click to View)

Tornado Spirit (Click to View)

Downburst (Click to View)

Launch Tornado (Click to View)

Standard TS Combo: Stun + Grab+J Tornado Spirit + Launch Tornado + 3x Jump attack (Click to View)

v4:
Video demonstration

Download
ver9
Mediafire

Credits
STM, madmaskman for DC advice
STM, Nyamaiku, Gad for sprite advice