i first had this problem when i downloaded a house mod then opened it in the CK many of the wall and ceiling models were replaced by red boxes with white exclamation marks i got some errors saying missing texture and what not when i loaded the mod, but when i start the game everything is there. so are the problem objects just stored in the wrong place to where the CK cant find them? i also have this issue when i imported some armor from another mod. i get the same boxes over the character that is wearing the armor, but everything works fine in game. i assume because i still have the oringinal mod installed with all of the object data.

Odds are, the assets are in BSAs? While the game will autoload BSAs by virtue of their nomenclature, the CK will not.

does anyone know if its possible to extract the data i need from these BSA files or somehow incorporate them into my mod so they will load in the CK?

You can use a number of different utilities. I use FOMM (Fallout Mod Manager).

SWEET it worked. i just downloaded the fomm, clicked the bsa file in the skyrim data folder, extracted my files to a temporary directory then copied them to their respective places in the: meshes, textures, scripts folders. i receved a bunch of errors when i opened up my cell in the CK (probably because it was the files from the bandolier mod i copied) but they are all there and i can see them! no more red boxes!

thank you http://www.gamesas.com/user/408976-justinother/