Hi, I recently needed to generated some sort of fractal noise map and i was really disappointed to find out that Composite does not have any such procedural texture tool at it’s disposal. Luckily i found that there are at least some PXL presets that could do the job, but no matter which one i try, all of them return same error:

PXL Presets Syntax Error: Invalid statement block at line 1

I would really appreciate any help as without such a basic feature i cannot continue my project in Composite.

Core i7 870 @3,2Ghz
16GB RAM
GeForce GTX460
3ds Max 2012 SP2
OCZ Vertex 2 SSD

Bearing in mind I know next to nothing about PXL expressions…
I just added one and Blend&Comp’d it with the existing stream (just before the Output node) and it worked fine (AFAICT anyway). Tried several of the presets with no issues.

Have you applied the latest SP? (SP2)

Try un-muting the Develop section and see if the text looks sensible - could be a corruption of the expression files. They’re in [install folder]\resources\toolPresets\PXL\* if you want to check them outside of Composite.

Max 4.2 through 2014, Composite 2014.
XP-64 (SP2).
nVidia 9800GTX+ (512MB) (Driver 314.22).
i5-3570K @ 4.4GHz, 8Gb Ram, DX9.0c.

Thank you. Gonna check them out :)

Core i7 870 @3,2Ghz
16GB RAM
GeForce GTX460
3ds Max 2012 SP2
OCZ Vertex 2 SSD