Hello everyone,
I am beginning to get afraid people are getting way too zealous when it comes to applying the Stickerback Standard to existing files.
The Standard explicitly mentions older stickers being different:
"The backing boxes for older, sharp cornered stickers should be modeled with an appropriately scaled box5-12."
Please do at least check the individual sticker's year of release before making any changes to existing parts.
It's hard to say when the change actually happened, but it was somewhere in the mid to late 2000s. If the sticker was released prior to 2004, the official one might not need a fix at all.
Things were handled way different prior to 2004, so applying modern rules there will make the sticker look wrong.
As a side note older stickers were noticably covering more area then the modern ones, so even if a sticker from 1997 happens to have rounded corners, the offset is highly likely smaller than 2 LDU.
I am beginning to get afraid people are getting way too zealous when it comes to applying the Stickerback Standard to existing files.
The Standard explicitly mentions older stickers being different:
"The backing boxes for older, sharp cornered stickers should be modeled with an appropriately scaled box5-12."
Please do at least check the individual sticker's year of release before making any changes to existing parts.
It's hard to say when the change actually happened, but it was somewhere in the mid to late 2000s. If the sticker was released prior to 2004, the official one might not need a fix at all.
Things were handled way different prior to 2004, so applying modern rules there will make the sticker look wrong.
As a side note older stickers were noticably covering more area then the modern ones, so even if a sticker from 1997 happens to have rounded corners, the offset is highly likely smaller than 2 LDU.