[Westane]

I have what may be an unusual question...

I have a large, scraped movie collection that does not have associated fanart for any of the videos. This is not a problem. Since the media is scraped, and every entry falls into one or more genres (Action, comedy, etc), what I'd like to be able to do is have matching genre art show up in the background, where the fanart would normally be.

Ideally I'd like this to work for all Movie views. Is this possible?

[phil65]

yes, possible, but would require bit of work.

[Westane]

Could someone point me in the right direction? I don't really have any experience with XBMC skinning, but I'm not terribly afraid of XML...

[phil65]

Add
<value condition="Substring(ListItem.Genre,Animation,left) + !IsEmpty(ListItem.Genre)">Path_To_Your_BackgroundImage_For_Genre_Animation</value>
and so on

to MovieFanartVar in variables.xml.

[Westane]

That's simple enough. I'm at work so I can't try it right now, but I assume that if a movie has multiple genres it will use the first genre in the list to decide on which image to use?

I'll let you know if I can get it working. Thanks!

[phil65]

That's simple enough. I'm at work so I can't try it right now, but I assume that if a movie has multiple genres it will use the first genre in the list to decide on which image to use?

I'll let you know if I can get it working. Thanks!

correct. if you want to set some priority which genre images should be preferred then you just have to remove the ",left". it will take the first hit then.