Question re animation script

When I run the ExampleAnimationScript at http://lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=ExampleAnimationScript, the behavior seems to be correct in most cases. However, a few of the animations such a stride and walk seem to get hung up after a single step. On the other hand, female_walk seems to work fine.

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Probably nothing. Every anim has a priority. It can be overridden by another anim with a higher priority, so if you have two or more running at once there's a decent chance that they will bump into each other.

The built-in walking and striding have some extra magic built in that isn't available to user-uploaded animations. They are velocity sensitive. If you leave the AOs off and walk up a steep hill or in a sim with really bad time dilation, you can see that the walking will adjust to your speed.

all the built in ones have extra magic in other ways too... they have variable priority within the animation (some parts are have a different priority within the same anim)

Does anyone know of an example script that shows how to cause an avatar to walk and run under control of the script using the built-in walk and run animations?

I don't think you'll find one, really. Vehicles that make the avatar walk bring their own animations, or use female_walk, which as you've already seen doesn't freeze up if it's run directly. It's generic enough that a male avatar won't look silly using it (well, no sillier than when using the generic male walk).

For the run, you can get SL's BVH file and upload your own copy, then you won't need to worry about permissions or having to create your own from scratch. You can get that from http://secondlife.com/community/avatar.php

If you want an attachment, the leash-type scripts that use things like llMoveToTarget will make the avatar walk and run more or less normally.

Thanks. Very helpful.