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P3D v4 Runway Textures

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In the photographs of the seaplane ramps extending from the seaplane apron at NAS Argentia, the ramps go into the water after 70 feet of visible concrete the remainder of the runway extends 1500 feet down into the water in real life. I created the ramp as an apron 100 feet wide and 70 feet long measured off Google Earth and referencing seaplane ramps on the internet at NAS Norfolk, Pensacola and Pearl Harbor from WWII and then extended it as a runway with water texture for both ramps, but in both FSX and P3D V4.5 the water runway looks like concrete on top of the water. Why is the water surface look like concrete? I have attached the ADEx P3D V4.5 file.
 

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I tried changing textures but no matter which texture the runway still extended out into the bay so I deleted them and just left the apron seaplane ramps which looks as right as I think they can be portrayed in FSX or Prepar3D. I don't know if X-plane 12 or MSFS would look better but it's a moot point since I can't run either of them with my GPU and my desktop or my budget can't handle an upgrade so it is what it is unless one of you can suggest something else. I don't believe that FSX/P3D water is transparent enough at the edge of the coast to show if I made a real ramp in Sketchup and created a bgl of it from the drawing I have. I may try that in the future but it's done for now.
 
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