View a comprehensive history of all the new additions in Construct 3 since the first release.
Timeline Plugin: Actions and conditions to work with timelines through tags
Timeline Plugin: Expression TimelineTags, to get a timeline's tags on a trigger condition
Tiled Background Plugin: Add timeline support for the plugin properties
New Project dialog: 'Start with' option to choose an event sheet or script as starting point (note event sheet defaults to worker mode enabled, and script defaults to worker mode disabled)
Timeline plugin: 'Set instance' action to play timelines with different instances
Timeline plugin: 'Play' actions are now async
Timeline plugin: Option to use keyframe tags with the 'Set Time' actions
Timelines & Tween behavior: Support for Z elevation
Functions.CallMapped() expression, to call a mapped function and return a value
Keyboard: new conditions to detect left/right control/shift/alt/meta key presses separately
Find results: show disabled events with strikethrough in results list
ColorValue common expression (returns instance's current color)
Text input: 'Search' type
8 Direction, Car & Platform behaviors: 'Set default controls' action
Platform: 'Reset double jump' action
Text: actions to change alignment, wrapping and line height, and LineHeight expression
SpriteFont: 'Set wrapping' action
Event sheet view: Shift+J / Shift+Q always adds script/comment as an action instead of block
Touch: action to request device orientation/motion permission, which is now required to use them on iOS 13+
Browser: 'Load stylesheet' action (can also load CSS project files)
'Compositing mode' project property, allowing opting-in to a new low-latency rendering mode supported in Chrome 75+
Max spritesheet size 512 option, for aggressively optimising for memory use potentially at the cost of performance
SpriteFont: PlainText expression
Mobile Advert plugin: 'Is in EEA or unknown' condition - useful for deciding if you should display an option for opening the User Consent dialog
Timelines: Tags for master keyframes, and triggers for when playback reaches them
Timelines: 'TimelineName' and 'KeyframeTags' expressions for use in triggers
Timelines: Action to set playback rate of a timeline
Timelines: Added 'Loop', 'Ping Pong' and 'Repeat count' properties (which work similarly to Sprite animations)
Google Play: added 'On sign in failed' trigger, fired when a user cancels sign in or it fails
Animations Editor: copy/paste images in browser, where supported (currently Chrome 76+)
Tile Movement: 'Is moving in direction' condition
Use custom easing curves in with the tween behavior
Event sheet view: now shows function and parameter descriptions in tooltips for both function blocks and 'Call function' actions
Solid behavior: 'Set tags' action
Shadow Light: 'Set cast from' action
Advanced Random: 'Remove probability entry' action to remove an item from a weighted probability table (useful for "unique" draws)
Settings: button to download all local browser saves as zip file
Pathfinding: made 'Find path' and regeneration actions async
Advanced Random plugin: new "Weighted random" feature allows you to create a list of items with odds of being picked that you choose
File dialog: options for sorting by date modified / file name / file size
Manual links for timelines in editor (note the manual content is not yet ready but should be available soon)
Event sheet view: 'F' and 'P' keyboard shortcuts to add function and parameter (respectively)
Share plugin: 'Add file' action - add images or videos to a share from a Binary Data object
New advanced example 'Raycast reflections'
Support for multiple local previews: hold Alt while clicking 'Preview' or use Alt+4 / Alt+5 shortcuts
Event sheet view: can now use Shift+Up/Down for keyboard range selections
Browser object: new 'Navigation UI' option for 'Request fullscreen' (set to 'Hide' for true fullscreen in Chrome on Android)
Import Audio dialog: new option to specify encoding bitrate