### 3.9.8 What About Tiles?

In earlier versions of POV-Ray, there was a texture pattern called `tiles`. By simply using a checker texture pattern (as we just saw above), we can achieve the same thing as tiles used to do, so it is now obsolete. It is still supported by POV-Ray 3 for backwards compatibility with old scene files, but now is a good time to get in the habit of using a checker pattern instead.