to the first part, are you running NoScript for firefox?if if you are, then make sure that you have cloudynights.com as an allowed site. i posted all of the tutorials at this site for just in case
as to your other question, i don't think that there is. blender pretty much runs python for the scripting language. one thing that you can do is go and download python at python.org. there are a lot of scripts out there that can do some groovy stuff. also you can render your own landscape fairly easily. i will go over that in the next few tuts that i put up, since right now im trying to cover the basics lol.
well, i hope that that helped out somewhat
peace, Derrek
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