Help with editing, please

[IdaGno]

Have been palying SMAC & SMAX since day one. Have never yet edited the default text files. Would now like to do so, I think, but don't know how. Have googled it & looked here & elsewhere, other CIV forums, for a SMAC/X editing how-to but am unable to find such a tutorial. Can anyone point me towards same? TIA.

[Humphrey]

This the sort of thing you want?: http://www.civgaming.net/smac/alphaxguide_v1_3.html

[IdaGno]

Humphrey, TYVM! for the effort but in a word, no, that aint it.

Had stumbled across that in my searches but it didn't answer my needs.

All I wanna figure out how to do is: add the Nessus Canyon Landmark & select which music/sound-set plays when in-game. Seems a modest beginning to modding smac/x.

Maybe editing these files is like *nx - either one is a code zombie & gets it or one is not & doesn't get it.

I am not & I don't get it.

[Chaos Theory]

As far as I know, you can't cause the map generator to use the Nessus Canyon, and the only way to change the background music is to pick a different faction or rename the music files.