   Games that you can edit the animations for
  Hi,I was wondering if anyone knows of some games out there for which there are tools to edit animations.  I like the idea of modding games, but many seem to just allow you to mod scripts, textures, ect.  I'd like to find some where I can edit the animations.I'd appreciate any suggestions.Thanks!   
  Halflife and its mod's.   ;  Quake 2 and 3 allow you to add in new characters with completely custom animations, or edit the old ones. There are tools all over the web for doing this.   ;  I think GTA: San Andreas, or any of the gta series would be greate, you can change everything, cars, people, game script, physics, videos, etc, and there are many free tools for doing thisPS: Check out this page, http://www.thegtaplace.com/   ;  Thanks for the suggestions.  I forgot to mention that a third person game is more along the lines of what I'm looking for.  I looked at that GTA sight, and looked at all of the tools, but I couldn't seem to find anything about editing animations.  Might you know where I should look for that sort of thing?Thanks a bunch   ;  You will be hard pressed to find a game that includes an animation editor, instead, what you do is get an exporter for a DCC (digital content creation) application such as 3dsMax, Maya, XSI, Blender, etc. create your models and animations in that tool and then export it in the format required for the game you're working on.   ;  Right, I do understand that much.  What I'm hoping to find though are games that you can do that with, as I believe that most of them use file formats that people haven't been able to convert into such editing programs.   ;  Different formats don't automatically mean different tools. Most developers simply write custom exporters for well-known modelling tools, since developing their own modelling or animation tools takes a lot more time. Besides, it wouldn't be a smart thing to do anyway since there's already a lot of tools available that can do just that.So yeah, I think you've misunderstood things a bit. Some game-developers distribute their in-house tools for modders, other developers don't, but they often used the same modelling and animating tools. Sometimes a few smart guys will write their own importers/exporters, sometimes not. You're best off picking a game that has a large modding community, because these often have the best tools and information available.   ;  "You're best off picking a game that has a large modding community, because these often have the best tools and information available."I understand, and in doing so I think I would be led back to a forum like this. I have searched for games with large modding communities, and not all of the games I've found have exporters/importers developed (by the game makers or fans) for animations.  It seems for most of the games, people have only been able to edit things like skins.  So I would be led back here to ask (let me rephrase):Does anyone know of some games out there for which you can edit animations or import your own animations?Thanks again   ;  I'm pretty sure you can decompile existing models for the source engine(Half Life 2, Counter Strike: Source, Day Of Defeat: Source, Team Fortress 2, Portal, etc). Even if you can't you can certainly inport your own models, animations, skins, etc as well as mod basicly every aspect of the game   