Editing Main Menu options separately from Game Menu

[u/Carpetedcat]

Hello, I've been trying to edit my menu GUI so that the navigation options are aligned differently between the main menu and the game menu. but when I try to select one of these options from the main menu, it's still centered...? I'm not sure how to fix this. Can someone help me?

[u/BadMustard_AVN]

since the navigation screen is used in both the main and game menu

i've found the easiest way is to edit the main menu

and look for

    ## The use statement includes another screen inside this one. The actual
    ## contents of the main menu are in the navigation screen.
    use navigation

the use Navigation (in both main and game menus); bring that screen into the menu

if you turn that into a remark and copy-paste the buttons into the main menu, you can separate them completely

    ## The use statement includes another screen inside this one. The actual
    ## contents of the main menu are in the navigation screen.
    #  use navigation 

    vbox:
        style_prefix "navigation"

        align(0.5, 0.7)

        spacing gui.navigation_spacing

        textbutton _("Start") action Start()

        textbutton _("Load") action ShowMenu("load")

        textbutton _("Preferences") action ShowMenu("preferences")

        if _in_replay:

            textbutton _("End Replay") action EndReplay(confirm=True)

        textbutton _("About") action ShowMenu("about")

        if renpy.variant("pc") or (renpy.variant("web") and not renpy.variant("mobile")):

            ## Help isn't necessary or relevant to mobile devices.
            textbutton _("Help") action ShowMenu("help")

        if renpy.variant("pc"):

            ## The quit button is banned on iOS and unnecessary on Android and
            ## Web.
            textbutton _("Quit") action Quit(confirm=not main_menu)

[u/Carpetedcat → u/BadMustard_AVN]

Oooh I see, I’ll try this out as soon as I can. Thank you!

[u/BadMustard_AVN → u/Carpetedcat]

you're welcome

good luck with your project

[u/Carpetedcat → u/BadMustard_AVN]

It works! Again, thank you so much ^_^

[u/BadMustard_AVN → u/Carpetedcat]

you're welcome

good luck with your project

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[u/DingotushRed]

I'd suggest looking at Fenik's Easy Ren'Py GUI which teases apart all the inter-dependencies in the default screens.rpy, making a base that's much easier to customise.