automark not working if master has no intens parameter

For a moving head multicell fixture I used to forget that I have to put both the master and cells intensities up to see light, even though I programmatically could do with only intensities on the cells, since the master intensity is basically just a multiplication factor on top of the cells intensities. So I went to the fixture profile in patch and changed the master intensity to locked value 255. Now when typing Chan 1 @ Full, the cells intensities would go to full, instead of the master intensity + I would have to select the cells and turn their intensities up as well.

But I think I found a roadblock, since now that the master doesn't have an intensity anymore, the moving head won't do proper automarks anymore, because automark apparently looks at the intensity of the master instead of the whole fixture (Augment3d on the contrary understands the change in fixture profile perfectly fine). I am on Element, so only automark is available.

I wanted to confirm that have no choice but to switch back to the double intensity fixture profile, if I want the automark to work for this moving head multicell fixture?

0 Lucas van Wijk 44 minutes ago

I have a second question. I have come across the following scenario: It is cue 1 and the master intensity is turned off. The cells are turned on and have color A. In the cue 2, the fixture does nothing. In cue 3, the cells should have color B. Since the cells were never turned off, the automark didn't do anything in cue 2, even though it could have faded the color from A to B, because the master was turned off, so it would have been invisible and that's what we want. But if I turn off both the master and the cells in cue 1, then it's not a linear down fade, but an exponential one. And if I don't turn off the master intensity, but only the cells intensities, the fixture could not do a focus automark in cue 2. And if I put color B into cue 2, this is basically a manual mark by setting the color parameter values in the dark cue yourself, which breaks the idea of automark.

So what's the best way to balance between master intensity and cells intensities programming wise?
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