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Test Build Alpha v.0.1.17

Hello helloo everyone, and welcome back to Targa Florio!

How are you all doing? I hope you're all in good health.

Any merc fans here who are happy that the team finally starting to catch up on podiums? :D 

I hope Ferrari sort out their issue with the strategy this summer break. I'm not a Ferrari fan but even I was frustrated when they keep making blunders in their strategy.

Well anyway, back on track,

first of all, here is the T2022-08-02 05:11:32 +0000 UTC View Post

Test Buld Alpha v.0.1.16

Hello helloo everyone, and welcome back to Targa Florio!

I am really sorry for the update delay, so many distractions and lots of things just aren't going my way lately. 

I hope you're all in good health. Quite an interesting race at Canadian GP last night. Too bad for Mick and Checo. I don't think anyone can stop Max from getting his 2nd title this year, aside from his engine reliability lol.

Back on track, this month I've been experimenting with the additional road textures. I added variation and tyre marks at brakin...

Test Build Alpha v.0.1.15

Hello hello everyone,

and welcome back to Targa Florio!

I hope you and your family are all in good health. Don't forget to drink enough water and exercise! (something that I keep reminding myself lol)

First of all, the important announcement;

Our friend Beni is currently on his way to Sicily right this moment. He's gonna be there from 12th to 17th to gather even more data around the targa florio. 

And that, include scanning the entire track. That's right gents, we are scanning targa florio.

We've been...

Test Build Alpha v.0.1.14

Hello hello everyone, and welcome back to Targa Florio!

How have you all been? I hope you're all healthy and rocking out there :D

This update suppose to be posted last weekend, I'm sorry for the delay

For this month's update, Beni been re-working the grasses, foliage and landscape, as we wanted to make it looks closer to spring ambience as it should. And we think it turns out quite nicely :D

2022-04-12 02:01:16 +0000 UTC View Post

Test Build Alpha v.0.1.13

Hello, hello everyone,

and welcome back to Targa Florio!

I hope you guys are safe and in good health.

Last month, 4 of my family members got covid and had to do self quarantine. My mother had the worst symptoms  and it was a bit tense during the first few days. But everyone is all right now and recovered well. I didn't do PCR test but also doing self quarantine for safety. Everything is back to normal-ish now :D

Yesterday, one of my friend Michi told me about the news that Floriopolis is gonna get knocked down fo...

Test Build Alpha v.0.1.12

Hello hello everyone,

and welcome back to Targa Florio!

Sorry for a bit delay, this update should've been posted 2 days ago, but well.. last minute adjustments :P

In this update, we got the building walls on Campofelice textured with ambient occlusion. Now that I got the result that met my expectation, the texturing work progressed much faster than Cerda.

That being said, there are some glitches than still need to be fixed and re-rendered. The Church model is also not done yet, still need more details etc.

Pedes...

Test Build Alpha v.0.1.11 update

Hello helloo...

Turns out that I missed a chunk of mesh during the physical sync, and there was a gap on the main straight -___-"

Fixed and updated 

Sorry for the inconvenience! XD

Abulzz

Test Build Alpha v.0.1.11

Hello hello everyone, and welcome back to Targa Florio!

First of all, of course, Happy New Year!

I hope you all had a great New Years Eve, whether you spend it with your family, friends, or even alone, like me! lol. The most important thing is that you enjoy it right? hahaha

2021 felt very short, yet looking back at it, there are a lot of things happened. and I want to share some of them.

But first, the track update :D

here is the 2022-01-03 15:56:23 +0000 UTC View Post

Test build alpha v.0.1.10

Heello hello everyone,

and welcome back to Targa Florio!

How are you all doing? With xmas and new year not too far away, has the holiday mood hit you yet? hahaha

Did you watch the Saudi GP? what an absolute chaos that was. Surely, this season will be remembered for a long time with all the drama on and off the track. I just wished there won't be a controversy on the last round next week when the WDC is decided (or maybe too late for that lol)

anyway, back on to Targa Florio.

here is the 2021-12-07 03:28:42 +0000 UTC View Post

Test Build Alpha v.0.1.9

Hello hello everyone,

And Welcome back to Targa Florio!

I hope you all are doing well and healthy.

First of all, I'm really, really sorry for the delay of the update. Things hasn't been too friendly with me lately. 

at the end of last month I was bedridden for 5 days. I was tested negative so they said the cause was most likely due to exhaustion. But I'm recovering well, so all good on that side.

This month, I quit my job. Might not sound like a wise decision in this uncertain times, but clinging to the com...

Test Build Alpha v.0.1.8

Heello hello Everyone,

and welcome back to Targa Florio!

I hope you are all is doing fine and in good health. Just got my second shot of Vaccine yesterday. Luckily there are no reaction this time. When I got my first shot, I had high fever and shivering, but thankfully the fever was gone in a few hours. No fever this time, but I do feel that my body a little bit stiffer than usual when I woke up in the morning. But I dunno if it has anything to do with the vaccine.

Anyway, I'm sorry for the week delay of the test...

Test Build Alpha v.0.1.7

Hello hello everyone,

and welcome back to Targa Florio!

How are you guys doing? As always, I hope you and your family are safe and healthy.

I read about the flood in Germany, I hope everyone is okay.

Just today, Jakarta just finished our partial lockdown again to suppress the delta variant surge. The number of recovery is at all time high, and to be honest I never thought I'd be glad to see traffic jam again! 

By the way, who watched yesterday's Hungarian GP? I was at loss for words. What a chaot...

Test Build Alpha v.0.1.6

Hello hello everyone, and welcome back to Targa Florio!

How are you all doing? I hope everyone is safe and healthy.

I saw on TV, looks like things are going well in Europe? Football stadiums and Austrian GP had about 130k attendees wasn't it? :D

I had my first shot of vaccine 3 weeks ago. Got a bit of fever but it's gone in a few hours, so everything is well. 

But currently the situation doesn't seems to be very good around here. There are surge of cases of delta variant, and we are entering another lo...

Test Build alpha v.0.1.5

Hello hello everyone, and welcome back to Targa Florio.

How is everything going? I hope everyone is safe and healthy.

I may sound like a broken record, but damn, time sure fly. We are now in June! Back in 2019 I was actually thinking of going to Sicily in May this year. But looking at how things going today, doesn't look like it's gonna happen anytime soon. 

One of the reason why I wanted to go to Sicily was to gather more data. But since it is impossible for now, we've been trying to find another way to do ...

Test Build Alpha v.0.1.4

Hello hello Everyone!

and welcome back to Targa Florio!

As always, I hope you and your family are safe and healthy.

I've been taking chinese herbal medicine lately for my stomach, since my gerd been acting up again lately. But it got better now. I just got to reduce my coffee and cigarette! haha

Anyway, it's been a frustrating month. I had to redone the building textures since it was not working as I hope it would. 

At first, I tried creating texture atlases for the buildings but the progress has...

Test build Alpha v.0.1.3

Hello hello Everyone!

and welcome back to Targa Florio!

as always, I hope all of you are in good health. Eat healthy food, reduce sugar intake, workout once in a while, and listen to cheerful songs if you need to elevate your mood! hahaha. 

The 2021 season of F1 has started, and despite the spot at top is still shared between mercedes and red bull, but I think it was a very interesting race. We're probably in for a very good season here! :D

anyway, it's the end of March, and we ha...

Weekly Progress #59

Hello hello everyone, and welcome back to Targa Florio!

I'm excited that F1 season is starting again soon. I hope we will see a better competition this year. 

Anyway, let's get straight to the track :D

We've been quite busy for the last two weeks. Well, the fact that I have nothing to do at the office, and working on the track during office hours was a big factor hahaha. 

Texturing still progressing, and the number of doors and windows texture keep rising lol.

Wall textures also has been prepared, they...

Test Build alpha v.0.1.2

Hello hello everyone, and welcome back to Targa Florio!

Oh wow, it's March already? I know days are getting shorter by the miliseconds, but it sure doesn't feel like a mere miliseconds isn't it? 

anyway, I hope everyone are all safe and healthy. Have you got vaccinated yet? I don't know when my turn to get the vaccine will come, but I think it will take at least a few more months.

As for the new test build version, we got all railings done, 32 types of railings in total.

Doors and windows is underway, ...

Weekly Progress #58

Hello hello everyone, and welcome back to Targa Florio!

and of course, I hope you had a Happy Valentine!

well, to whoever celebrate Valentine, that is. For those who is like me, who is single and happy, spending Valentine's day watching Korean drama or variety show, do not worry since you are not alone :D

So, as I've said a week ago, I was doing some experiment with rFactor 2 engine, in preparation for the rF2 version of this track. 

aside from a little confusion about naming convention for objects and materials,...

Weekly Progress #57

Hello hello Everyone, and welcome back to Targa Florio!

I hope everything's well, and everyone is safe and in good health.

After last week that I felt a bit under the weather, I'm feeling quite good right now actually. despite it's been raining almost all the time here. 

Anyway, back on track, I've finished all railing all the way to campofelice, made some adjustment to the buildings along the way. also some correction to UV maps, etc.

next on the to do list is to start texturing doors and windows, while collecti...

Test build alpha v.0.1.1

Hello hello everyone, and welcome back to Targa Florio

I hope you all have been well and healthy.

January is over just like that huh? a lot of things happened this month. Some good news, but there's also sad news as well from my relatives and friends :( 

I took a swab test the other day because I didn't feel too good, and fortunately it came out negative. Gave me a scare for a bit hahaha.

Anyway, I've been quite busy with the track as well. I've finished replacing most of the generic houses with textured ones. th...

Weekly Progress #56

Hello hello everyone, and welcome back to Targa Florio!

I hope you guys are all in good health.

Last week, my GERD was acting up again. I guess I had been too careless about my meal and drinks. Project deadline is also approaching, so stress level is rising. In this pandemic situation we're in, managing stress is veeery crucial, isn't it?

But I got it under control, so it's fine now.

I already start working on texturing the buildings, starting from the generic houses. I need to do it first because it's rela...

Test Build Apha v.0.1.0

Hello again!

and welcome back to Targa Florio!

just in case you haven't already, please join our discord channel:

https://discord.gg/dbMM5Hf

so how was your NYE? anyone got drunk? :D

I've stopped drinking a long time ago. in the last few years, all I did during NYE was eat like crazy and go to sleep around 1 or 2 am hahaha.

Well I've said a lot in the previous post regarding the plans for the project. By all means, if you have an...

Happy Healthy New Year 2021!!

Hello everyone, and Happy healthy New Year 2021!

First of all, I want to thank all the Patrons and everyone who donated to support this project. 2020 was tough, and to be honest, you guys really helped me through the worst times during the pandemic year.

I pray that we all and our family will be healthy and happy for the next years to come.

Remember to eat and drink healthily, make some time to workout every now and then, take your vitamins, and of course, keep on racing!

Regarding the track, Targa Florio is entering ...

Weekly Progress #55

Hello..!

Wishing you a Merry safe Xmas and holidays..!!

I'm really sorry for the late post. Had an urgent matters to take care of, and it was a bit hectic for the last couple of days.

I hope you all had a great week. please remember to stay safe and always follow the health protocol.

Soon the 2020 will come to pass huh? Been quite a year, to say the least. A lot of things happened. Many failed and suspended plans too. 

But we'll get through this. Things will definitely take some time to get back to 'normal'...

Weekly Progress #54

Hello again everyone. How are you doing? I hope everything is going well. 

F1 2020 just concluded. Lots of "last drive" for their team. Too bad for Perez who had to end his drive for racing point in DNF.

To be honest, I don't feel any tension whatsoever yesterday. I fell asleep around lap 40 hahaha.

Well then, welcome back to Targa Florio!

This week, another bulk of new additional buildings added into the track. We are indeed very close to finishing up Campofelice here.

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Weekly Progress #53

What a drama at Sakhir GP last night. 

And what a heartbreak for Russel. Such a strong drive. But I guess it's just not his time yet. 

Hello guys, Abulzz' here, and welcome back to Targa Florio!

It's a chilly morning here in Jakarta. and by Chilly, I mean 20 degree Celsius. Now now, don't laugh, it's just the way it is hahaha. On average, 24-26C in the morning is normal, and 30-32 during the day is a good day :D

So we are here at the second week of December. You guys got any plan yet for NYE? I wo...

Test build v.0.0.27

Hello hello everyone!

Welcome back to Targa Florio!

I hope you all had a great weekend at home. And if you spent it outside, please stay safe.

Well, topic of the day in the racing world; Romain Grosjean crash at the bahrain GP. That was a nasty one isn't it?

When I saw that the car was ripped in half, my back got cold. I thought that Grosjean must be lying inside the fire, unconscious or hurt pretty badly. But thank god he's okay. I instantly remember suzuka incident few years ago with Jules. 

Th...

Weekly Progress #52

Hellooo everyone,

Abulzz here and welcome back to Targa Florio!

How are you guys doing? As always, I hope you and your family are safe and healthy. Don't forget your vitamins and work out a little to keep fit! (something that I I need to keep reminding myself hahaha)

Especially because it should start getting cold on the north side of the globe right? I'm a bit on the south side, still in tropical zone, so it's been raining a lot lately. 

So, did any of you managed to get one of those RX6800xt? :D If y...

Weekly Progress #51

Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening!

Hello everyone, abulzz here and welcome back to Targa Florio!

(I'm thinking of making this line as the opening line in my video lol)

I hope you all had a great weekend. If your country is going into lockdown again, please stay healthy and follow the safety protocol. 

The US election is over, and the US now have a new president, in case you're not following. I'll be honest with you, I'm more interested in news about Ryzen launch and benchmarks lately hahah...