Checkerboard floor

[patricks]

Has anyone seen or maybe know how I could make a render material for a floor that will render as a 12" black and white checkerboard pattern, like black and white Terrazo tile or something?

[sbrown]

You can easily create the type of floor you want 2 ways, 1.create an alpha channel mask that is the style you want then add that to a solid color material. Or easier, just create a jpg or bmp of the floor you want and import that into the material editor within accurender. Its very hard to explain all the steps in words, but if you poke around the materials dialog box under maps, is where you select the map you want. You can even take a photo of a real floor and make a jpg of it and use that as your material.