Drawing lines in 2D, NGUI, UnityGUI

Unity Engine
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Hi,

I’d like to do a starmap similar as seen here. I have used UnityGUI before and now I have moved to NGUI.

I think I know how to do the buttons and the scroll view, but how do I draw the lines? NGUI lacks this functionality, but on the UnityGUI side I thought we have the LineRenderer class - right? Can I combine NGUI and UnityGUI in such a way?

NGUI creator Michael Lyashenko suggested to use raw OpenGL calls. This has been discussed here and related to that here. So, what is the way to go?

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I’d suggest Vectrosity. The easiest way to use that in a scroll view would be to use a rendertexture, but if you don’t have Pro there are other ways.

–Eric

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Hi,
yeah, I know Vectrosity of course, but paying for a piece of code I will only use once? Well, not if there are other options.
Why not the integrated Line Renderer? I don’t understand. Impossible to integrate with NGUI or other 2D GUIs?