Shiva model!

[Imoen]

Threw together a quick visual example... hopefully this helps people understand a little bit.

-This is a very quick rough example.

- I chose to use a flat plane as the low poly... because it better shows what a normal map does visually. It adds bump information the lighting can react to on the low poly. This gives the "appearance" of more detail than the low poly actually has.

The purple map is the "Normal map" forgot to put that in there.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/18215724/normal_example.jpg