Can't find meshes

[WastelanderRando]

Hello, I'd like to say sorry in advance if this is a stupid question with an easy answer, however I am new to modding so I'm not really sure what's going on here. I know that if you're missing a mesh, in-game you should see a exclamation point on a red square. However, I'm not seeing that exclamation point, yet I can't seem to find half the meshes I want to edit in Blender. For instance I wanted to make an armor using the Ranger Combat Armor, however, when I go to Program Files(x86)/Steam/SteamApps/common/Fallout New Vegas/Data/meshes/armor/combatranger there should be:

combatranger_m.nif
combatranger_f.nif
and combatranger_go.nif

However there is only combatranger_f.nif in that folder. I'd know if the game was missing these meshes because like I said there'd be a exclamation point on male rangers in-game. What I'd like to know is where the game is hiding half of my meshes because I've checked other folders and it's a very similar situation for almost all of the mesh folders. I have quite a few mods but I don't think any of them would change file paths for meshes, if anyone thinks that's the problem let me know.

Thanks for whoever takes the time to help me out.

[M48A5]

The only mesh files that will appear in the meshes folder will be items that are added by a mod, as long as they are not packed as a BSA. Otherwise, they will be in the meshes.bsa folder.

 

If the mod only retextures the armor, there will not be a mesh file.

[drithius]

To add to that, you'll need to use FOMM to view and unpack any of the BSA's contents (which you can then edit freely).

[WastelanderRando]

Thanks a lot, I've found what I'm looking for with FOMM