"How do I Fusion" or smart answers to stupid questions

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    Hey guys!
    I am totally new to Fusion and it’s community and have been watching video tutorials and reading the board for two weeks or so. My problem is that I find learning Fusion quite confusing despite the fact I have programming experience. It seems that my questions I google weren’t answered before, or, what seems to be more likely, I’m not asking them correctly. Spamming the board with stupid questions is the last thing I want to do, so is there any basic FAQ that will help me understand the way Fusion “thinks” so I can feel it’s foundation and figure this all out on my own? I really have a hard time doing that right now. Here are a few questions out of the top of my head:

    The examples I download from Nivram’s archive are unreadable because I don’t have certain extensions, and I couldn’t find a single one at Clickstore. Are those for older versions of Fusion or something? Or am I supposed to find them on unofficial resources?

    When I set an object with Bouncing Ball movement to look in certain direction it also follows the object I tell it to look at. Why?

    Speaking of Bouncing Ball, it looks like most of users use this type of movement to create enemies. Where can I find detailed information on movement settings? I just can’t make them behave the way I want to.

    It seems like most of the tutorials are oriented at people who have some experience already, skipping minor parts I find vital. Can someone help me with this or at least tell me what part of the engine I don’t understand?

    Welcome to Fusion and the Forums.
    I'll try to answer you to the best of my knowledge. Other members will also assist you when they see this thread.

    There is the help manual which contains some FAQ as well as built in object help files. You can access it by pressing F1

    About Nivram's archive. Fusion comes with extensions most of which are created by clickteam. If you cant find an extension try the extension manager in fusion which helps you to download 3rd party
    extensions. If you cant find them in fusion try this site: Please login to see this link.

    You can find movements information in the help file or by just pressing the help button under movement setting window

    There are tutorials for all fusion users starting at the begginers to experienced users. You can also find great tutorial on snail's youtube channel or in this forums there is a subforum called Guides, Tutorials, Examples, Widgets

    Thank you, Nyc, for your reply, this is really the information I was looking for. I went through all of the tutorials provided with the software right when I bought it, but I had no idea it had such a detailed manual on any piece of the program, thanks for pointing at it, it really cleared up a lot of details. I actually moved further forward thanks to your message, but I don't know what things you like, so here's a picture of a guy kicking a rhino in the crotch while playing a guitar with a nuclear explosion in the background :D
    Please login to see this picture.

    Regarding the extensions, a better way to get extensions is the built in extension manager.

    Go to Insert -> New Object -> Manager

    and install extensions from there.

    Please login to see this link.

    Also their is plenty of stuff on youtube to follow along with Snail and Theamazingsparkman are my favorites and they do provide examples to download.
    Their are 2 courses on Udemy.com, i suggest sparkmans Please login to see this link.

    good luck

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