Skyrim - Creation Kit, that is.

[Binarydrone]

Anyone on this fine board working with this and feel like talking about it. I have just started getting my feet wet and am running into some weird issues and would love to bounce some ideas around.

Specifically: I am attempting to create a new set of armor. I have figured out how to copy and existing one, change stats and the like. Even how to make it craftable. What is jamming me up is changing the look of the thing. I know that theoretically I should be able to just change the .nif file, right?

The issue is that in the Kit the path to the existing .nif file is not a full path (so it might be Armor\mesh\SomeDamnArmor.nif) and I cannot find through any method available to me the original file. Windows is set to show hidden files, so I know know that isn't it. I am baffled.