One of my more embarrassing walk-backs on this forum is my aversion to orthophoto usage in X-Plane. For the very reasons stated above—it looks ridiculous (so I claimed) down low where I get most of my joy. I was wrong—mostly. Orthos look amazing in nature where they expose the spiderwebs of streams and creeks with their submerged but visible sandbars; real cliff-faces painted onto the actual surface with matching mesh cracks, crags and caves. It’s incredible! But it shows it’s flaws pretty quickly over populated areas where painted features conflict with the 3D autogen elements. Add to that seasons. So I think ortho is essential to civilian sims. But I agree with others that it is probably unworkable in DCS. I even find the “ortho-lite” that we see in the Caucuses to be a little off-putting.