Replays & photo mode

Every match a server runs is recorded by default, and you can watch it back from any camera with a scrubbable timeline.

Replay playback (#41)

Every match is recorded by the server ([replay] in fl-server-config.md). Open one from Replays in the main menu, or straight from the command line:

fighters-legacy --replay ~/.local/share/mkzsystems/fighters-legacy/replays/20260727-140233.flrep

Playback is a session with no server and no socket: the recorded world is published through the same path a live server's snapshots take, so every camera mode, the HUD and the terrain work exactly as they do in flight. There is no ownship — a recording is of the world — so a replay uses the spectator controls: Num1 / Num2 cycle which entity the camera views, and F1 / F2 / F4 frame it in Cockpit / Chase / Free.

Action	Key
Pause / resume	Space
Scrub ±5 s	Left / Right arrow
Scrub ±30 s	Down / Up arrow
Jump to start / end	Home / End
Slower / faster (0.25× … 2×)	- / =
Toggle photo mode	P

The transport bar along the bottom shows elapsed / total time, the current speed, and tick marks at each keyframe — a scrub always lands on the keyframe at or before the target and rolls forward from it, so the marks show where a seek will actually land.

Photo mode (P)

Photo mode pauses playback (a still of a moving world is a screenshot, not a photograph), switches to the free camera, and adds manual control of the shot:

Action	Key
Zoom in / out (FOV 20°–120°)	Page Up / Page Down (hold Left Shift for 1° steps)
Roll the camera	; / ' — not Q / E, which move the free camera you frame the shot with
Exposure −/+ (¼-stop, ±4 stops)	- / =
Export a PNG	Enter

Exposure compensation is applied to linear HDR before the tonemap curve, so raising it recovers real highlight detail rather than washing out an already-compressed image. Exports land in <user data>/screenshots/photo-<timestamp>.png. Photo mode is available during live single-player too, via the local pause.

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