The 3D Garage Update

Your factory has a new look, and there is more happening inside it.

Update 0.11 brings Car Factory Tycoon into 3D. You can rotate around your garage, see the parts on your shelves, watch workers assemble your designs, and follow finished cars out to the sales lot.

This update also adds the first steps toward making components yourself, simplifies getting a car into production, and improves performance throughout the factory.

A factory you can follow

The garage, workers, equipment, deliveries, and sales area now share the new 3D view. Shelves display the parts they actually hold, tools have their own storage, and cars visibly take shape on the stands. Workers drive completed cars into parking. Walk-in customers choose a car, speak with a worker, then get in and drive away.

A redesigned interface keeps the main controls together and puts details where you need them. Click a car, worker, shelf, stand, or delivery truck to inspect it. Hover outlines show what you are about to select.

Start making your own components

Research panel forming to turn sheet metal into body panels, or wheel assembly to combine rims and tires into finished wheels. These components go into the cars you build.

You can continue buying finished components, manufacture them yourself, or use purchased backup stock. Set output targets, order inputs in batches, and choose which parts belong on each shelf. Workers handle the physical movement and machine operation, so layout and available staff matter.

Less clicking between you and the next car

Choose a design at a stand and review its required parts, reusable equipment, and cost together. Approve the build to order missing supplies and get work started. Research Batch Production when you are ready to queue more cars.

The five campaigns now use the new factory systems. New Game opens free play, and scenario objectives can stay open while you work.

Changelog

Factory and presentation

• Replaced the factory's 2D presentation with a rotatable 3D view.
• Added visible shelf stock, carried parts, reusable tool storage, and assembly activity.
• Added delivery trucks, a sales forecourt, and worker-assisted customer purchases.
• Redesigned the factory interface and updated menu thumbnails to match the new models.
• Added contextual details for cars, workers, storage, machines, and delivery trucks.

Production and logistics

• Added researchable body panel forming and wheel assembly.
• Added component sourcing choices, stock targets, input buffers, and batch input purchasing.
• Added shelf storage filters and direct delivery-to-workstation routing for needed materials.
• Added a complete-car supply review and one-set purchasing from Suppliers.
• Improved queued production, receiving-space handling, and recovery from blocked deliveries.
• Added average car build-time tracking and a first pass on garage production balance.

Layout and workers

• Added furniture movement and rotation, including stocked shelves and occupied car stands.
• Added placement warnings, editable walls and doors, and repeated wall placement.
• Improved worker and customer facing, shelf access, and approach positions.
• Added break tables with faster seated recovery and clearer break and shift indicators.
• Workers finish active jobs and car deliveries before leaving for breaks or the end of a shift.

Campaigns, controls, and saves

• Moved all five campaigns to the current 3D factory and production flow.
• Consolidated free play under New Game and updated in-game guidance.
• Kept scenario objectives open when clicking outside the window.
• Improved loading-screen timing when starting, switching, loading, and importing games.
• Added save import and export to the corresponding pause-menu screens.
• Improved Escape behavior, camera movement with inspectors open, and camera speed consistency.
• Added migration support for existing factory layouts and saves.

Performance and fixes

• Reduced repeated work in job searches, routing, inventory checks, and interface updates.
• Improved factory rendering and reduced stalls around deliveries and completed jobs.
• Moved autosave serialization and disk writing into a background worker.
• Fixed button hover clipping, wheel installation flicker, car glass inconsistencies, and engine hoist alignment.

Thank you to everyone who has been testing and sharing feedback. If something gets stuck or does not look right, let me know what was happening and include a save if you can. Your reports are helping shape the next steps.