Replacing/removing animations from games?

[McGeezo]

Ok, total newbie here and sorry if it's in the wrong place but I've asked on various game-specific threads on numerous sites, Google searched for days and commented on tons of Youtube vids, all to no avail.

 

I know the methods will vary from game to game/engine to engine but I'm dire need of just being pointed in the right direction to get started on how I might go about replacing or removing animations from games (other than f***ing Skyrim), more specifically I wanna remove canned death animations so deaths just skip straight to ragdoll.

 

Some games (whole franchises) I wanna do this in are Borderlands, Wolfenstein, Doom, Halo, Titanfall.

If people can mod ragdolls into Half-Life 1 & San Andreas then I know I can be helped

Edited January 25, 2022 by McGeezo