Sky Dolly “Humble Hawker” (v0.17) has just been released. This release introduces keyboard shortcut support for MSFS, for basic recording and replay control.
New features:
Keyboard shortcut support in the flight simulator
For record (CTRL + R), replay (CTRL + P) and other basic replay functions
The keyboard shortcuts can be re-assigned in the Sky Dolly application settings (no restart required)
In case of recording start/stop a desktop notification message will inform the user
SimConnect network support
Sky Dolly comes with a SimConnect.cfg configuration that works "out of the box" on the same machine ("localhost") with the automatically generated SimConnect.xml server configuration (located in the MSFS data folder)
For an actual network configuration edit this SimConnect.cfg with a text editor and adjust the server address and port numbers as needed
Conveniently select between the three provided configurations (pipe, IPv4, IPv6) in the Sky Dolly application settings (no restart required)
Dark theme support via selectable styles
Windows 10 users can select the "Fusion" style for dark theme support
Windows 11 users have a new "Windows 11" style that natively supports dark theme
In either case the dark theme has to be enabled in the Windows system settings
Improvements:
The default logbook name is now Sky Dolly Logbook
This should make the actual data folder more distinguishable from the application folder (and hopefully prevent data loss due to the accidental deletion of the wrong folder)
The flight number is now also shown in the Logbook table
The Formation module settings (relative position, replay mode) are now persisted
A flight recording in progress is now automatically stopped and the flight stored to the logbook in case the flight simulator is terminated (e.g. also due to a crash)
The full range of flight simulator simulation rates 0.0625 up to 128.0 is now supported
The maximum simulation rate can be set in the Sky Dolly application settings, as higher simulation rates can take up quite a lot of CPU power
Note that the actual replay speed can still be set to higher values (up to 200)
Bug fixes:
KML export: the first position point is now properly exported as well
Flight condition is not overwritten anymore when recording additional formation aircraft
Toggling the "active pause" in MSFS while recording now properly resumes/pauses recording and the flight itself
Prevent a crash that would occur when a flight is loaded and the replay mode in the Formation module is changed to "Fly with formation", but no connection with MSFS exists yet
Remove last recorded flight or aircraft in case persistence fails (improved error handling)
In the Formation module the reference aircraft icon is properly initialised
During replay the replay speed is now properly set to the last "custom speed" (e.g. 0.1) when checking the "Custom" radio button (previously the actual replay speed was always wrongly set to 1.0, mismatching with the displayed custom speed value, e.g. 0.1)
Seeking on the timeline now correctly re-establishes the current flap (and other control element) settings
For all details please refer to the complete CHANGELOG on github.com.
Sky Dolly is open source. The latest binaries are available at: