Given all the marketing for Construct 3 is about game development, we felt it was less confusing to make a separate product that could be marketed independently as an animation tool.
Thanks for the thoughts - we weren't sure about including a desktop (.exe) export option for animation, can you tell us a bit more about why that would be preferable for animations over a web export or video?
We're going to continue to work hard on C3 as well, and you'll continue to see plenty more updates in future! All the latest updates have kept coming while we were doing some work on Construct Animate in the background, and that will keep going: construct.net/en/make-games/releases
For the time being 'Export to video' will remain unique to Construct Animate. Currently it's the only feature that Construct 3 does not have. It's much more useful for animation purposes anyway, as games require interactivity to play so can't really be rendered offline as a video. You can however record realtime gameplay videos and such with the Video Recorder object in C3.
As we mentioned almost all improvements for the animation product will improve Construct 3 too, as it includes many of the same features. To be able to do even more we need more staff, which means more customers, which a new product could help with!
This update doesn't change how effects are rendered.
I just tried a build and it worked fine.
Unfortunately opening an associated file does not allow accessing other files in the same folder, so this can't be supported yet for .c3proj files for project folders. For those you'll still need to use the 'Open local project folder' option, or choose it from recent projects.
The option is named Show 'take a break' reminder every 2 hours.
There's an option for it in Settings.
Oops, looks like a problem with a late change. We'll get a patch release out shortly.
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The performance benchmark includes a version using events.
Event block performance is already competitive with other programming languages!
I think that might be a record so far!
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