I never really liked any of the water textures for X-Plane that I found, so I made my own. It is based on an aerial photo of real water (originally an FS 2000 texture by M. Suzuki), but I worked a lot on it to achieve a homogeneous color and rotation independence. The result looks like water from any altitude.

I'm planning to replace the coast textures of several popular custom sceneries with enhanced versions using my water texture and publish them here, so these sceneries integrate seamlessly with my generic textures. Feel free to use my water for your own sceneries, but please drop me a note if you modify existing sceneries, so we don't do the same work twice.