Ok small update. I went back to work this week and its been kicking my ass… I between that I have been learning 3dsmax. Mark Foreman’s been bugging me to start doing high poly stuff so this was a test for me. I took and old model of Bjorn’s and redid the normal maps via the high-poly bake to low poly method. Took a long time. I then took the normal into PS and cleaned it up and used Ndo2 to make some additional tweaks. I think it turned out pretty good. There are some small changes to the model so as not to mess up the scene when these have to be placed into the animation. Now I have to bake a color map so I can take this into Ddo (which was my goal for this project). These models may or may not make it into release. Either way the texture will get redone (again makes time #3 for me lol).
Glad to see you’re back with us, Brian! 
Looking good, I really like the detail on that arm!
Those 2 look good so far.
YAAY! Glad you’re back, and able to work again.
These look good! I hope they make it in-game!
Thanks for the update!
Very nice! I’m liking the arms.
I played around with baking normal maps with high-poly models once…
Then I went back to just making my own normal maps. 
Cool!
Looking great! Glad you can join us again, bkdale!
Like the new door, and I’m glad your’e feeling better.
Thanks all. I finally got all the maps done so I could drag it into dDo. Man that program is awesome (and free now). Tonights progress.
Looks great.
Oh, looks pretty!
If I may go off topic right quick, how is dDo to use? Looks complex at a quick glance.
So pwetty
I thought the same thing. As long as you have a tangent normal, a object space normal, AO and color map its sirprisingly easy to get decent results fast. If you have time to tinker its really easy to tweak. For me the hardest part was learning to do all the other maps because I wasnt trained in how they worked. So 40 hours later I have a texture and learned.a bunch of new things, mostly through trial and error and getting help from people that know how to use it.
Awesome door!