Doing a lil pre-vis for the next mod I'm working on...it's in pre production right now.
figured I'd post up a little wip to get some feedback and general guidelines or notes from the rest of you.
Just started the other day, projected some things to get normal/AO maps.
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Are you projecting your details to a flat plane or to your lowpoly mesh?
From the shots you provided it looks like you could be a lot more generous with your highpoly mesh. It could use a lot more detail. In addition to more detail the detail you have could also be thicker and deeper. Right now a lot of the details seem to have the same depth and thickness, there's nothing that really breaks them apart or helps elements stand out.
Take a look at games that use normal mapping and see how they create their details to work best using the given tech.