Installing Mods that Alter Followers during a Game

[AmericanJackal]

I decided to save Erandur, only to discover that he's a priest with no magicka.

 

I found a mod on the Nexus that changes him quite a bit, but the only thing that immediately updated when I installed this mod was his facial appearance. The new skills or stats did not update. Not wanting such a big overhaul anyway, I jumped into the creation kit and just created a new class for him based on his old one (Priest -> PriestErandur, to prevent it messing with other NPCs with Priest as their class) and tweaked his skill and attribute weights to better suit his background story.

 

I tested these changes with a new save game and found them to be very satisfactory.

 

However, in my MAIN SAVE GAME, I can not get him to update, and I can't find any instructions on how to make him update. I took him back to Nightcaller Temple and left him there, and then went to the Dawnstar Inn and waited 3 days (72 hours) and that did not appear to work -- can someone give me proper instructions?

[myztikrice]

Gonna have to just edit his stats directly with the console, select him and type forceav statname value or modav skillname xx where xx is the positive or negative amount you want to change that stat.