GUI text not showing in scene or game view

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I have set the transform positions to 0, put the text in a default layer, in the hierarchy it is not a child of the canvas. I added a script which shows a highscore, but it wont show in the game or scene view! Very annoying, I feel like I have tried everything. I see that in the text field in the inspector of the game object which has the gui text component attached, the text changes to what I want. However, it wont show in the game or scene view. i want the text to be in the center middle, with text alignment to be center as well.
Heres the script im using:
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class ShowScore : MonoBehaviour {

	static int highScore = 0;

	void Start () {
		PlayerPrefs.GetInt("highScore",highScore);
		highScore = PlayerPrefs.GetInt ("highScore", highScore);
		guiText.text = "HS:" + highScore;
		}
                    
		            
		

	

}
2

If you are using 4.6 unity it is much easier to do it like this:

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using System.Collections;

public class ShowScore : MonoBehaviour {
	
	static int highScore = 0;
	public Text guiText;
	
	void Start () {
		PlayerPrefs.GetInt("highScore",highScore);
		highScore = PlayerPrefs.GetInt ("highScore", highScore);
	}
	
	void Update() {
		guiText.text = "HS: " + highScore;
	}
}

I haven’t tested it so if you get any errors let me know. Just wrote it on the spot so probably has errors, maybe not. Hope this helps

EDIT: It is very important you include using UnityEngine.UI; on top otherwise you will encounter errors!