I know this is kind of silly but I got the RPG2 data copied engine.pak into it copied in the PhysX dll's built the source no issue, built the 2 maps no problem. started the Rpg made a new character and I get Horse doesn't have Skel.

Is the horse not included because of copyrights or something or what might my issue be here.

No, skeleton is in Data\Obj\Animal\Horse\0.skel, but skeleton isn't linked with horse mesh. You should run ModelEditor -> load 0.mesh from Horse folder (look at window title bar there is "(Linked Skeleton: empty string") so, go to Skeleton tab and load horse skeleton (0.skel), next go to Mesh tab and resave mesh one more time as 0.mesh.

Next, restart ModelEditor and try load only horse mesh (0.mesh) and look at window title bar, if all is ok - Linked skeleton = 0.skel path.

Now you can start EERPG 2 sample.

Thank you very much for the reply, weird that it's missing that from the download but I guess it was good that it was gives me a better understanding about the meshes and skeletons for the future. Got it working no problem following what you said.

Thank you for reporting this!
I will upload updated data later today