How to design the Main Menu and Game Menu separately

[twincentaurs]

In the vn I'm working on currently, I want the main menu navigational screen to be centered, but I still want the game menus (what pops up for preferences and everything else) to remain on the side. I tried the easy way and centered the navigation screen; it looked good on the menu, but it had also centered the game menu's navigational screen, because they use the same menu. This is just a little fan game I don't want to spend a ton of time on so I don't really want to redesign the entire menu for this one thing. Is there a way to separate the two menus so I can move them independent of each other yet have the same functionality?

Sorry if my question is dumb, this is my first project.

[philat]

The easy, if belabored way - duplicate the contents of the navigation screen inside main menu with a different style instead of using use navigation.

[twincentaurs]

The easy, if belabored way - duplicate the contents of the navigation screen inside main menu with a different style instead of using use navigation.

Haha, thank you, I ended up trying that about an hour after posting the question. Might not be the prettiest, but it works well.

[MaydohMaydoh]

Just to add to this, another thing you could do is give the navigation screen a position depending on if the main menu screen is shown.
Something like:

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screen navigation():
    vbox:
        if renpy.current_screen().screen_name[0] == "main_menu":
            xalign 0.5
            
        ##etc

Where your default position is to something like xalign 0.0. Aligned to the left.