The 3D Display

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The 3D Display

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The 3D Display puts you in the seat of a rowing shell that's accurately modeled on the Pan-Am Pro Elite from Little River Marine, and you get to row with state-of-the-art Big Blade Dreissigacker Oars from Concept2.

The 3D display uses a significant amount of PC graphics processing power. RowPro shows you how well the 3D graphics system is performing in your PC via the fps indicator at the bottom of the PM twin frame.

See the On-screen status indicators Help Topic for more details.
If you are having problems getting good 3D graphics performance, see the Troubleshooting Graphics Performance Help Topic.

 

The main features of the 3D display are:

True 3D

The scene is a true 3D scene. The entire 3D Display and everything in it is painstakingly designed and accurately scaled to look as close as possible to the real thing. When you row you will notice the nearby trees move across in front of the far away trees. Professional camera operators track alongside your boat to keep it in view as you row, and if you choose Broadcast Camerawork, the view shifts during your session in a way that's similar to TV broadcast coverage of an on-water rowing regatta.

Adjustable detail

The amount of detail in the 3D display is selectable to accommodate less powerful PCs - for more information, see the System Settings Help Topic.

Course

In RowPro you row on the longest course in the world - in fact it never runs out! The course is a 4-lane on-water course, and for Online Rowing with more than 4 people it automatically expands up to a maximum of 16 lanes. There are lane marker buoys every 10m along the course, with different colored buoys in the first 100 meters of the course and every 250 meters along the course.

Oarsman

The on-screen Oarsman is male or female in accordance with the Gender setting in your user profile. The on-screen Oarsman tracks you stroke by stroke while you row, showing you excellent rowing technique that you can mimic while you row to quickly improve your own technique.

Other lanes

You can choose to place boats in other lanes as follows:

Pace boats

Basic, Intermediate or Advanced pace boats that can be pre-programmed to change their pace and stroke rate along the way.

Your past rows

Any rows of the same duration from your RowPro rowing log with saved strokes.

Other people's past rows

Any rows of the same duration saved as Rowfiles by other people. This includes:

A large number of rows recorded at the British Indoor Rowing Championships (BIRC) and the World Indoor Rowing Championships (CRASH-B). These are available for download from the Rowfile Library at www.digitalrowing.com.
Many rows uploaded to the Concept2 Online Ranking by other RowPro users. These are available for download from the Concept2 Online Ranking.
Rows sent to you by other RowPro users, for example by email.

Online Rowing

When you are in an Online Rowing session, your competitors will be in the other lanes next to you.

For details about placing any of these types of boats in other lanes see the Session Setup Help Topic.

 

There are also some information features that are not always visible on the 3D display:

Session information

RowPro gives some user feedback in the area below the lanes in the 3D Display, for example showing if you are in the Warm-up, Main row or Warm-down part of the session.

Ahead / Behind Indicators

At the left and right edge of the 3D Display, when there is a boat off-screen ahead of or behind you, an arrowhead appears in that boat's lane for every 10 meters it is ahead of or behind you, up to a maximum of 10 arrowheads.

Pace bar

During Online Rowing and Venue Racing, a pace bar appears on the right edge of the screen showing the current pace of each boat and the number of meters each boat is ahead of or behind you. When each competitor finishes, the pace bar in that lane shows the final time or distance and the placing of that boat.