Missing inventory hud in HL2 mod

[foyleman]

I am working on a single player mod. I have successfully installed, compiled and tested the mod. I have even successfully added a custom weapon.

However I place weapons in my test map, pick them up and I can't switch between them. There is no weapon hud (inventory) and using shortcuts to switch doesn't work either.

I have tried this under multiple first-time mod installations with the same results.

What am I missing?

I have confirmed that my HudLayout.res file contains a visible setting on almost everything (particularly that which is related to weapons and huds).
I have confirmed that my config.cfg is set to flip through my inventory with the default keys.

 

[Calhoun]

Did you put a item_suit in the level, or code it so that the HUD and weapon selection system works without having to pick up the Hazard Suit?

 

[foyleman]

Geez. I guess I wasn't getting 'impulse 101' (to add the suit) to work properly. I dropped the suit into the test level for a pickup and it worked like a charm.

Thanks Calhoun.

 

[MorganFreeman911]

Now your only challenge is to make the suit invisible some how.