How does the game handle attacks?

[ghipsandrew]

Hello hello Nexus Community :D

 

I'm new to the modding scene and I'd like to know how Skyrim's / Fallout4's engine handles attacks. Is it a papyrus script function that can be modified?

 

I'm asking because I'd like to create a mod that replaces most instant damage from weapons with bleeding effects or other crippling effects. That could of course be done by attaching scripts to all the weapons in games and reducing their damage to near 0, but that would be troublesome with modded in weapons. Modifying the base attack function (there's gotta be one, or more of these, I think - but my searches on the CK wiki haven't been very successful).