I've created a typical "race preview" graphic that cycles through stuff like the track name, location, number of laps, air/track temp, etc. I then created a couple of fade-in/fade-out animations, then created a storyboard to have all these cycle through over about 45 seconds. Finally, I tied the storyboard to a button so I can click once and it does the rest for me. Works great. However, in the spirit of further automation, I'd like to start showing this info automatically as soon as gridding starts. An alternative would be when the parade lap starts, if the race has rolling starts.

I've looked through the event trigger types and nothing stands out as being usable. I already know that the sim sends indication when gridding as began, as evidenced by using the "lapcounter" data in the "sessionstate" data set. Additionally, I've noticed an event in the session events screen of ATVO that states "Session state changed to ParadeLaps", so that seems to be available as well.

Can these two items be added as event trigger types? Or are they already accessible in a form that I'm not familiar with already? Thanks!

I'll see if I can add them. For now, perhaps you can use a Data Trigger instead. I think there may be data bindings for the session state but you may have to experiment a bit on which value to use for the data trigger.

I hadn't even dealt with Data Triggers yet so thanks for pointing me in that direction. I did some testing and it was as simple as watching for the "sessiontype" binding in the "sessionstate" dataset to change to "Race", that's obviously the start for gridding. Didn't really consider that before but it works for me. I attempted to also use the "sessiontime" to basically have my storyboard start running at 10 seconds but couldn't get that to work, perhaps I didn't set the value clearly enough, but no worries. I just adjusted my storyboard to start at 10 seconds.

Definitely would be nice to have an event trigger for "ParadeLaps", I could see having the grid pop-up automatically for the out lap in oval races. I love automation. :D