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I have long wanted to do noise and autoplace. But as soon as I look at the documentation, its appearance disheartens me. I gave up, so I'm asking for help. I want to increase the distance between resource points. But I can't figure out which function or variable is specifically responsible for this parameter. The documentation has an incredible amount of abbreviations, abbreviations that constantly confuse me when studying.
The hardest thing to parse:
-How work noise-expressions?
-How work autoplace?