View a comprehensive history of all the new additions in Construct 3 since the first release.
Timeline bar: standalone keyboard shortcut to stop preview (Ctrl/Cmd + space bar)
Timeline bar: show the time where the play head and total time markers are at
8 Direction: 'Allows sliding' condition; 'Set allow sliding' action
Timeline bar: keyboard shortcuts to add common property tracks (Alt + T/S/Z/A/O/C for position/size/Z elevation/angle/opacity/color)
Added 'Is effect enabled' condition
Timeline bar: show handles on time markers to make them easier to see when overlapping or at time 0
Timeline bar: additional toolbar buttons to jump to first/last keyframe
Timeline bar: ',' and '.' keys move through keyframes (hold shift for start/end)
8 Direction: 'Allow sliding' option to allow movement to slide along sloped solids
Text: support for listing all available local fonts in Chrome 103+
'Enabled' setting for effects in editor
Autocomplete effect names in effect actions
Templates: support hierarchy properties
Debugger: remember 'Hide unused' setting
3D Camera: display camera properties in debugger
New example 'Animated splash'
HTML Element: 'Origin' property
Hierarchies: add 'AllChildCount' expression to count all descendants of an instance
Hierarchies: add option to compare own or all children in 'Compare child count' condition
Timelines: option to transform a timeline's X and Y properties along with related hierarchies
Templates: add system condition to check if a template exists
Templates: add expression 'TemplateName' returning name of the template used to create an instance (if any)
Debugger: 'Hide unused' option for object list
New 'Make a platform game' guided tour
Debugger: search box for object list
HTML Element: new action 'Position object at element'
HTML Element: new action 'Create sprite image element'
HTML Element: 'On CSS animation ended' trigger
Debugger: add missing layer interactive property
New examples 'Animated SVG', 'HTML element', 'HTML table'
Animations editor: new options to cut/copy/paste frames in the frames panel
Font picker dialog: allow choosing generic font families like "system-ui"
System expressions VanishingPointX, VanishingPointY
New example 'Spinning stick'
Data editor: option to resize the header rows and columns
Settings: option to turn off 'Take a break' reminders
New example 'Tower defense game'
'Purpose' property for HTML project files, allowing inserting snippets in exported HTML
'Purpose' property for CSS project files, allowing adding custom stylesheets
'Class' property for form control plugins, allowing easy styling of groups of controls
New examples 'Connect four', 'Hidden anagrams', 'Game of life'
New 'Get started with JavaScript' guided tour
New 'Get started with timeline animations' guided tour
Example Browser: also list guided tours
Show a 'Take a break' reminder every 2 hours while editor is open
Allow [code] tag in event sheet comments
Video: 'Set playback rate' action, 'PlaybackRate' expression
Timelines: option to automatically start a timeline on start of a given layout
Animations editor: option to generate sub folders with duplicate names when doing a bulk import of animations from a folder or a zip file
New example 'Farming lines'
New example 'Arcade shooter'
Layers can now turn off 'interactive' option so they don't respond to mouse/touch input
Example Browser: more detailed results footer with extra clear options
New examples 'Alien battle', 'Animated title screen', 'Skyscraper builder' and 'Space bricks'