The attached example should help with both issues.

1. It moves the chicken using right,up and forward coordinates. You can add an "as seen by" reference to make the coordinates absolute but I don't remember the exact details (either the ground or the world sets the (0,0,0) cordinate reference). A forum search on offset or something similar should find it and I think there is an explaination in Dick Baldwin's tutorials - or it's not too hard to figure out with a couple of experiments.

2. I also toggled viewing a pivot (origin and axis) on and off. This works fine on a PC but I believe the axis are not visable on a Mac for Alice 2.0 - though I think this is fixed in 2.2b