Some screen grabs of the bow for the archery game I'm working on. Hard to tell, but the normal map does make a difference.
Here is what it looks like as a whole. I'm currently working on the textures for the body of the bow. I will post more as I progress. So far from this experience I have learned that making even a simple game is quite a bit of work. I'm only in the texturing stage. I feel like the programming side is what will take up most of my time.
With the normal maps I spent a lot of time testing texture baking with Turtle. In the end I used a slightly higher poly mesh and baked the normal map texture in mud box which had excellent results.
Here is a shot of my UV's:
