What do you do if Gui text is not in GameObjects?

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1

First of I’m a beginner so don judge to harshly but on to my question, I was working on the roll a ball project when I was ask to make a Gui text gameobject and I when to the gameobject tab and there there’s no Gui text what do I do I’m so confused.

2

You are probably using Unity 4.6. With the introduction of the new UI, the GameObject menu has been shuffled. In addition, there is no longer a menu item to create a complete GUIText object (at least I cannot find it). So you have to do the following:

  • Create an empty game object
  • Add attach a GUIText component: Component > Rendering > GUIText
  • Set the position to somewhere that can be seen (like (0.5, 0.5, 0.0). GUIText uses GUI coordinates.
  • Type some text into the ‘Text’ entry field.
3

A better way is to use the new UI system. There is a video showing that here.