AI modding tutorial, anyone?

[RedRavyn]

I've been a busy boy this weekend, revamping Anise's Cabin, fixing some issues with Candlelight, Magelight, and Nightvision, and mulling around the idea of turning Meeko into a valid companion.

 

I need to get my feet wet in the AI, though, and I thought I'd tackle something that would have been trivially simple in Oblivion -- changing the follow distance of a follower so that he isn't constantly bumping into you -- the main reason I don't use followers in Skyrim. I figured I'd start with Barbas, who is undoubtedly the single most annoying follower to have around because of this. I look in his AI section and he has NO AI packages at all. Zip. Nada. Nil. Zilch. Nothing. There's obviously something I'm missing, here, but for the life of me I can't even find a menu option anywhere in the CK that lets me even peruse all the available AIs.

 

Bottom line -- can anyone point me to a Skyrim AI tutorial that isn't a video tutorial? Sorry for those of you who have spent a lot of time and effort making video tutorials, but I don't learn very well from most of them because you guys zip through the steps so rapidly I'm spending more time stopping, rewinding and restarting the videos than I am actually absorbing the information. It doesn't help that most such tutorials have such poor video quality that it's nearly impossible to read any of the text on the screen without a big stretch of the imagination (read that, "guesswork"). So far I've been pretty much learning the CK by trial and error, although a little bit of what I knew when I was modding for Oblivion seems to work, here. My experience modding Oblivion fails me when it comes to AI in Skyrim, though.