custom agent creation

Hi,
I created a custom agent. It has 5 animations. Show, Hide,Blink, Announce 
and Restpose.
I wanted the agent to read a para when I use Announce animation or when it 
is in restpose.

Problem: When I play the "announce" animation and ask the agent to
read a 
para of about 60-70 characters, the mouth movement stops after 30-40 
characters. The agent goes to restpose and doesnot move mouth anymore

More Info on my custom agent: The 3 animations, show,hide, blink are 
straight forward with no branching or anything. But Blink  has Idle states 1 
and 2.

Animation – Announce: This has 7 frames. 7th frame is a dummy blank frame 
with zero time duration. The animation Uses exit branching. Frame 6 has mouth 
overlays. Exits after Stop to frame 6, frame 6 to 5, and 5 to 4 , and 4  to 3 
and frame 3 to 2, and 2 to 1 and frame 1 to 7.
Announce is NOT assigned to speaking state.
Animation – RestPose: This has one image with mouth overlays and is assigned 
to Speaking state.

Why does my agent stop reading the sentence and goes to a different 
animation in the middle and what should I do to solve this problem. 

Thanks 
Gurry

"gurry" <gurry@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:C2597694-DE4C-4119-885C-2DEEA5CD297B@microsoft.com...

> Problem: When I play the "announce" animation and ask the agent
to
> read a para of about 60-70 characters, the mouth movement stops
> after 30-40 characters. The agent goes to restpose and doesnot
> move mouth anymore

You probably did not set up the frames correctly.

> Animation - Announce: This has 7 frames.
<snip>

Offhand, I do not see anything wrong with that.  Can you post the actual 
character file?


Gambit