View a comprehensive history of all the new additions in Construct 3 since the first release.
JSON Plugin: new actions 'Toggle boolean', 'Add to', 'Subtract from'
Tilemap brush editor: new auto tiling template images
Array editor: new context menu option to transpose (swap rows and columns)
Event sheet view: expand/collapse animations for events
'Framerate mode' project property, allowing uncapped framerate
New 'Camera average color' scripting example
Android export: option to edit version code on export
Prompt when opening a second project if you want to close the previous project
Advanced Random: debugger properties for the plugin
JSON: 'Is boolean set' condition
Orbit: 'TotalRotation' and 'TotalAbsoluteRotation' expressions
Confirmation prompt when closing important UI bars like the Project bar
Platform Info: expressions to get screen safe area inset (for notched displays)
Particles: action to set or unset object to spawn as particle
Parameters dialog: show descriptions when selecting an instance variable, event variable or function from a dropdown
Animations Editor: toolbar button to preview the current animation
Cordova export: iOS 13 & Android 10 in version lists
Mobile IAP: 'On product owned' and 'On any product owned' triggers
Three new timeline examples in the Start Page: 'Timeline basic playback', 'Timeline instances' and 'Timeline drawing'
Tile Movement: 'Can move in direction' condition - allows checking if a given direction is free of obstructions for a specified number of cells
Google Play: new 'force reload' option for 'List Achievements', 'Get metadata' and 'Request hi-scores' actions that bypasses cache
New 'Move along path' intermediate example, showing how to use 'Move to' to follow a fixed path designed in a timeline
Additional Alt+Shift+N/B keyboard shortcuts for Next/Back, which can be used while typing
Mobile Advert: 'Create Banner Advert' action can now set position (top or bottom)
Tilemap Bar: Tileset zoom can now go below 100% to 50%, 25% and 12.5%
User media: 'Preferred direction' parameter for 'Request camera' action - can choose between front/back cameras on mobile
Layout View/Ease Editor: Keyboard shortcut (Ctrl/Cmd) to move related anchor points of curves at the same time, to achieve smooth transitions.
Advanced Random: new 'Create probability table from JSON' action and 'ProbabilityTableAsJSON' expression for saving probability tables
Export: 'Minify script' option can now be set to 'None', 'Simple' or 'Advanced' for different levels of protection vs. compatibility
Timeline support for Orbit and Sine behavior properties
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