spawning civilians?

[stabalot]

hi guys, i'm working on a payday2 fun mod which i will share here when it's completed
and trying to spawn civilians / gangmembers

but everytime i do the game crashes,
spawning normal enemies works fine though.

The code for one of spawning functions is:

function spawn_crackwhore(position, rotation)
	local unit_name = Idstring( "units/payday2/characters/civ_female_crackwhore_1/civ_female_crackwhore_1" )
	local spawn_ai = { init_state = "idle" }
	local unit = World:spawn_unit( unit_name, position, rotation )
	unit:movement():set_character_anim_variables()
	unit:brain():set_spawn_ai( spawn_ai )
	unit:brain():set_active( true )
end

it will crash the game whenever it's spawned. the same happens with other civilians
as well as bikers / gangmembers.

I've looked at the game's sourcecode but can't find anything about spawning civilians or gangmembers
i think this is coded in the maps.

Anyway i was wondering if any of you guys had any luck with spawning civs / gangmembers
and could please share with me the proper way to do it.

the original code i used for spawning enemies had a line in it like:
unit:base().tazer_1 = true

after spawning, my guess is that there must be a base set in the code for civilians and gangmembers
or somehow they must be set to have a different brain, but i can't find what it is i've tried dozens of things without any luck.

and i was also wondering if anyone here knew how to send a text message on screen to all the players.

if managers.hud then
					managers.hud:show_hint( { text = "text message" } )
				end

this code will only show the onscreen text to me, the host but i want to display a text for all players to see.

any help would be appreciated


thanks