A GUI for non programmers for Epic's version control system Lore
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Hey, it's Matt from Anchorpoint. We released a free desktop client that you can use with Lore repositories. Lore is incredibly fast, so we wanted to make sure that the client is also fast when it comes to display revisions, branches and visual previews.One of the highlights is that you can review binary files such as Unreal assets, 3D models, code, audio&video and even PDFs with overlay and side-by-side comparisons. On 3D models you e.g. can quickly see if UV maps or the mesh has changed on a particular revision.All the basic commands such as creating/cloning a repository, committing, switching branches and reverting revisions are of course also supported. It is available for download on our website.We will keep improving the application. The next step are adding Lore relevant features such as sub-repository links and file locking. It would be cool to get your opinions. Lore is still pretty new and we want that it's ecosystem will grow, similar like it did for Git.
HN · launched Sep 21, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 67%) · 0 views
Niche: version control and updater software · 34 launches, 2 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial Building an Electron/Tauri GUI wrapper around a CLI or C++ VCS tool is straightforward, but handling huge binary asset diffs, fast visual preview caching, and stable custom VCS bindings requires dedicated systems software engineering.
What it would actually take: A production client requires an Electron/C++ or Rust (Tauri) frontend interacting with Epic's Lore core engine via native bindings or IPC. The hard part is high-throughput file I/O, streaming visual diffing for multi-gigabyte 3D and texture assets (such as USD, FBX, textures), and conflict resolution for monolithic game repositories without freezing the UI thread. This demands desktop systems programming and low-level file asset pipeline experience.
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