adding GUI text in 4.6.1f1

Click on Add Component on your empty gameObject as GUIText is still available in 4.6 just not in the same place.

EDIT

Did you set the transform to origin like it says in the video?

EDIT: Beginner here, having similar issues getting the GUItext to appear in the Character Controller script in Inspector.

The updated video linked to youtube didn't work for my either, and in following Richards instructions I now have more errors to work around.

Basically, the script didn't' work, so I tried closing down and reopening Unity and now I see an error in the Player Controller script within Inspector which says the "script can't be loaded". Upon opening the script is gives me another error, "Object reference not set to an instance of an object."

Also might as well mention it, not sure what this means, but I noticed that whilst editing the Character Controller script using the newer Lesson video, when creating the new "public text countText" variable, there are no completions for "text" that show up for me, and the word appears red instead of blue after the line of code is finished. Specifically, it says "no completions found" when typing in. I noticed this was not the same for Richard in his video. It does turn blue when I capitalize to "Text" but i get the same errors..

Oh well, it sucks that I can't finish this today, I might as well move on to another Lesson and just keep working at Unity. I'll save the project for later date so if anyone bothers to make sense of this I'll complete it.

EDIT 2: Wow. So the parsing error i was troubleshooting, specifically "error CS0246: The type or namespace name `text' could not be found. Are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?", i have been working on it for hours. Rewriting lines of code, capitalizing, lowercasing, searching the net for advice etc. Just now I retyped the line and it just worked. No more errors and the word "text" was recognized as reference finally. Very silly. The Count Text option appeared the Player Controller section for me and I'm finally good to move on. yay.

Here is my script below for anyone having the same problem. This is playable for me with no errors.

 using UnityEngine;
 using System.Collections;
 using UnityEngine.UI;
 
 public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour{
 
     public float speed;
     private int count;
     public Text countText;
 
     void Start (){
         count = 0;
         SetCountText ();
     }
     void FixedUpdate (){
         float moveHorizontal = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
         float moveVertical = Input.GetAxis ("Vertical");
         Vector3 Movement = new Vector3 (moveHorizontal, 0.0f, moveVertical);
         rigidbody.AddForce(Movement * speed * Time.deltaTime);
     }
     void OnTriggerEnter (Collider other){
         if (other.gameObject.tag == "Pickup"){
             other.gameObject.SetActive (false);
             count = count +1;
             SetCountText();
         }
     }
     void SetCountText (){
             countText.text = "Count: " + count.ToString ();}
 }