The rat is textured in game im not having any problems except I want to edit the rat texture and I can not find it in the creature texture folder. Does anyone know where the rat texture is?

According to the NIf file it is located in textures\creatures\rat\rat.dds (this is the location for the vanilla game and would need to be extracted from the BSA file if you do not already have the BSA file extracted) ---- unless you have a mod that changes the texture path in the Nif it should be there !

But it isnt in there the rat mesh is where it should be but the rat texture is nowhere to be found.

Did you extract it from the BSA file ? -- the original game meshes are stored in BSA archives that need to be extracted in order to make changes to them -- If the game does not find the extracted texture in the textures folder it will use the one that is inside the BSA archive during gameplay so unless you have extracted the files from the BSA archive it will not be in the textures folder but will still exist in that folder inside the BSA archive thus the game will use it properly -- Once you extract the files from the BSA the folder would look like this -- http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc189/JDFanning_bucket/rat.jpg -- so you probably just did not extract the files from the BSA yet !

I extracted the files im guessing that i deleted the rat texture out of the texture folder and the game is using the rat texture for mthe bsa file. i m searching now.

THat is probably what happened -- just extract them again and it should be there afterwards.

Depending on what tool you used for extracting, it may not be saved where you expected. IIRC the BSA Browser that comes with OBMM will save a single file directly in the folder you point it to, but if you select more than one, will use the entire logical path data, and put them several sub-folders below where you expected. Since you normally extract both rat.dds and rat_n.dds at the same time, I'd guess there's a textures folder inside texture/creatures/rat i.e it's now texture/creatures/rat/textures/creatures/rat/...

found it in the bsa made a new folder for it.

@tarlyte: Please post such threads in the CS forum. This is the mods forum. Your other posts have been moved, so you should get the hint