Curiosity: How does Spirit's XML (or I guess TXT) work?

[KadePleaseHelpMe]

what is this and what makes it work in the code

[moxie-coder]

offsets from what I understand, it works like every other characters offsets but his is in an txt file for some reason (likely due to him being pixel or some shit I don't know)

[KoloInDaCrib]

Those aren't offsets but rather frame data (basically a substitute for the .xml file for spirit, made much simpler than an .xml file as this doesn't account for frame offsets unlike an .xml file). The string before the equals sign is the name of the frame, and the data after the equals sign is:

Number 1: The X-Position of the Frame, in Pixels
Number 2: The Y-Position of the Frame, in Pixels
Number 3: The Width of the Frame, in Pixels
Number 4: The Height of the Frame, in Pixels

so to analyze, for instance, line 21 spirit down_0 = 0 0 256 256 it loads the frame with the name spirit down_0 at (0, 0) with the size 256x256 pixels

[KadePleaseHelpMe]

ok that makes sense
but why not just use the XML
I get that it's simpler, but like

why
was it just a whoopsie on Moawling's end?

[KoloInDaCrib]

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