Casting Graphics and Sounds
Normally, female gender uses a female casting sound, other and niether gender use an unvoiced casting sound, and all other genders use a male casting sound. This caused problems with spells like Project Image where illusory female creatures used male casting sounds.
TobEx fixes this bug by modifying the way that the gender of casting sound selection is handled. Specifically, male gender uses a male casting sound, while all other genders check the Sex field (0x237) in the CRE file format. If the Sex field is male (1), a male casting sound is used. If the Sex field is female (2), a female casting sound is used. For any other value in the Sex field, an unvoiced casting sound is used. In order to do this, TobEx also ensures that the Sex field is correctly set during character generation, and patches some characters and creatures (a la BG2 Fixpack) so that their Sex field is correct.
TobEx also fixes a bug where the Mental Speed stat is not considered when determining whether to play a casting sound at all, whether to play a gendered or unvoiced casting sound, and whether to play a casting animation.
The following is yet to be investigated:
If the header of the .spl uses targettype 7 (cast instantly during pause), or a spell is launched through a trigger/contingency/opcode232 the casting graphics/sounds are still played normally, so they linger if the character moves away.
