Noise deform plugin

Maya
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I run Maya for Mac OS X. and I'm new to maya (not new to 3D)
what do I do about plugins ??

all of the ones I think I need like noise deformer run only on NT?

should I be on a PC?

thanks

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Naah, the noise plugin is pretty much obsolete... it has allways been. All you need is to make your object a softbody then make a little experssion for the positions of your particles (it isnt even slow).

Here ill do an example of th expression. But now i have no where to test so you must debug it yourself, create the apropriate attribs.

vector $default=particleShapeNN.position0,

particleShapeNN.position=$default+(particleShapeNN.intensity*sphrand($efault+<>)

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I have no idea how to even run an expression. can somebody point to a step by step to create a noise deformation using this method?