I found a fix that works for me for that I wanted to share - gathering profs and gold dot on minimap

[knopstr]

I 5box shamans. My monitor setup is the main on 1 and the 4 others split into 25% quadrants on 2nd monitor.

My main is a skinner/herbalist. My 2nd char (upper left quad) is my miner/tailor. I had a lot of problems missing mining nodes because the little gold dot was so small that I would miss them.

I found an addon today called BigMiniMap; http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/fileinfo.php?id=4095#info

I found that I could blow the minimap map up by close to 3x on the secondary window and easily see when I got near a mining node while keeping the main window focused on herbing nodes.

I hope this helps someone else who may have been looking for something like this and if it's been posted before, my apologies.

[mmcookies]

thanks, i've been looking for this

[mmcookies]

after a brief look through the code


/script MinimapCluster:SetScale(1.0);

/script MinimapCluster:SetScale(2.0);
seems to be a quick ugly alternative

[Multibocks]

does that actually make the map itself bigger or just the gold dots?

[Thulos]

does that actually make the map itself bigger or just the gold dots?

Just tried it out and it indeed makes the map bigger. Very nice discovery I might add.

[Dor]

nice, hopefully will help with finding nodes in passing... feel like I miss too many

[bigp3rm]

Thanks for sharing your find. :thumbup:

[knopstr]

Fur....Mappy might be a better alternative. Thanks for the suggestion. I'm going to try it out this evening.

[Crayonbox]

Do these addons also scale the size of the node icon on the minimap? the yellow goldish dot? I found that the only way for me to scale that is to scale the size of my entire UI and its rather bleh to have a huge UI

[Ajuga]

Do these addons also scale the size of the node icon on the minimap? the yellow goldish dot? I found that the only way for me to scale that is to scale the size of my entire UI and its rather bleh to have a huge UI

Check out Chinchilla ('http://www.wowace.com/projects/chinchilla/'). It has several dot textures, and I believe one of them is pretty big.

[davedontmind]

I use Carbonite, mainly as a quest helper and map/gatherer replacement, but it also replaces the mini-map with a map that you can resize simply by dragging the borders.

Not as lightweight as the other solutions above if all you want is a bigger mini-map, but if you want its other features I'd highly recommend it.

[knopstr]

I recently switched over to Mappy per Fursphere's post a few threads up. Nice thing about it is, that it is easily stretched to a new size and you can tell the nodes to "blink" when you're near one.

[Crayonbox]

wow ace is done, ill take a look at other addon sites after i get back home.

the problem with carbonite is that it is a huge memory hog. It is extremly handy but quest helper does pretty much the same thing for a little less memory.
I use quest helper for multiboxing and carbonite for single. theyre both super.

note to self: Check out chinchilla and mappy when back home. :end note

[darkives]

I find that mappy doesnt increase the node icon size, you can make it flash however, but I would prefer the larger node icon size

Will keep looking