Future Slider is designed to be as customisable as possible. As an experienced developer you'll understand how frustrating it can be to work with 3rd party modules. For that reason Future Slider is built around the widget system, slideshows (banners) are widgets so can be placed anywhere and individual slides can contain other widgets.
Recommended installation is by Composer:
composer require clockworkgeek/futureslider
If installing by modman please note there is one dependency:
modman clone https://github.com/clockworkgeek/formelements
modman clone https://github.com/clockworkgeek/FutureSlider