change faction culture for music

[Arkayne]

How do I change faction culture for a specific faction so that the music files play from a different culture for that faction. For example, I wish to play the music files for eastern_european faction for the Byzantines, which are greek faction. I have changed Byzantines to easter_european faction in the descr_sm_factions file in the Stainless Steel mod folder but that only changes items on the strategy map, buildings, etc., not the music. I have edited the descr_sounds_music file to play the mp3 files from eastern_european in place of the southern_european music list, but this still does not change the music for the Byzantines. There is no list of music for greek_faction in the descr_sounds_music file. I have extracted all sound files in all sound folders using IDX extractor and still I have found no file to edit for the Byzantine music files. Please help if you have any suggestions.

[Arkayne]

I found how to do this after all. For any who are interested in changing faction music, this is how you do it:

Open the file descr_sounds_music_types witn notepad in the Stainless Steel data/world/maps/base folder. Find the faction for which you want to change music type. Cut the faction lines under its music_type and paste it the music_type you wish to change it to. Make sure to add that faction to the "factions" line under that music_type and delete it from its previous "factions" line. So if you wanted eastern_european music for Byzantine faction, it would look like this:

music_type eastern_european

; hungary
regions Iasi_Province Budapest_Province Bran_Province Bucharest_Province Sofia_Province Scopia_Province
regions Zagreb_Province Ragusa_Province Belgrade_Province Satu_Mare_Province

; russia
regions Novgorod_Province Moscow_Province Riga_Province Volga-Bulgar_Province Smolensk_Province
regions Ryazan_Province Sarkel_Province Kiev_Province Rostov_Province Konosha_Province
regions Bryansk_Province Astrakhan_Province Vjatka_Province Mensk_Province Yaroslavl_Province

; poland
regions Vilnius_Province Thorn_Province Halych_Province Cracow_Province Breslau_Province Warsaw_Province Pskov_Province

; byzantium
regions Caffa_Province Trebizond_Province Constantinople_Province Thessalonica_Province Nicaea_Province
regions Durazzo_Province Smyrna_Province Corinth_Province Isle_of_Cyprus Isle_of_Rhodes
regions Isle_of_Crete regions Arta_Province Athens_Province Canakkale_Province

factions hungary russia kievan_rus lithuania poland byzantium

[Echad]

Aha, so the music can be set independently from the culture, that defines the UI and buildings etc.? If that is the case, then KoJ can really get some more eastern music, instead of bagpipes...

And Byzantium deserves the unique music and interface - the game actually holds "greek" as a separate culture.