Sticker
Stickers are 2D images that can be plastered onto various surfaces to add detail or colour. Most are obtained through Prize Bubbles in the story levels, though players can also create their own stickers through various means.
Overview
Stickers can be accessed from the Stickers & Decorations section of the Popit menu. They can be placed onto many different surfaces, including materials, objects, gadgets, and even Sackthings. They are purely visual and do not affect the behaviour or physical properties of the objects on which they are placed.
Placement
When a sticker is selected, it will appear at the end of the player's cursor. It can be moved with 
and scaled or rotated with 
(Up/Down or Left/Right respectively). Clicking 
will flip the sticker horizontally. Pressing 
will place the sticker onto whatever surface the cursor is hovering over.
Once a sticker has been placed, the Sticker and Decoration Edit Tool can be used to reposition it, duplicate it with 
, or delete it with 
.
Usage
Sticker Sensors
Players can activate Sticker Sensors by placing a sticker within the sensor's detection range. If a Sticker Sensor is set to require a specific sticker, it will appear at the top of the Stickers page in a special "Switch Triggers" category, provided the player has actually collected that sticker. In the official story levels, these are used to gate certain prizes and bonuses until the player has found a sticker later on.
Sticker Panel
When a sticker is placed onto a piece of Sticker Panel material, the portion around the sticker becomes transparent in Create Mode, and fully invisible in Play Mode, creating the illusion that the sticker is floating in mid-air.
Costumes
As stickers can be placed onto Sackthings, another common use for them is in custom costume creation. When the sticker cursor hovers over a player for a few seconds, the camera will zoom in on them and freeze their animations to help place the sticker. Pressing 
or 
in this state will turn the Sackthing around 90 degrees in either direction, letting them place stickers in spots that would be difficult to reach otherwise. They can also use 
and 
to tilt the camera above or below.
Limits
There are limits on the maximum number of stickers that can be placed on certain types of objects; once an object's sticker threshold has been reached, placing another sticker will delete the oldest one on that object to make room. These limits are defined in gamedata/data/limits_settings.lmt, and vary from game to game.
| LittleBigPlanet | LittleBigPlanet 2 | LittleBigPlanet 3 | LittleBigPlanet PS Vita | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per Thing | 100 | 100 | 100 | 20 |
| Per Sackthing | 10 | 100 | 100 | 20 |
| Per Costume Piece | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Per Pod | 1000 | 1000 | 1000 | 100 |
| Per Planet | N/A | 500 | 500 | 100 |