Quote: "if I told you I was a 13 year old with a genuine interest in game programming would I still be accepted in the forumms or would I be veiwed as an outcast"
Ideally, that would never happen, because you should NEVER post your age. But, for the records, I have been on here for about that long and I was never outcast. I may have been noobslapped a couple times, but that was for just being stupid.
For your first question, make sure to set the object cull to on (or off, whichever ISN'T the default condition) using the SET OBJECT command.
2. For clouds, a way I have seen it done is with a box/plane placed to be the sky and then it just scrolls the texture.
Great Quote:
"Time...LINE??? Time isn't made out of lines...it is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round!" -Caboose