last chance? project at hand?

what are you going to do, lock the thread? shouldve done that a while ago, honestly. and last time i checked, your helmet is the project at hand, and thats what everyone is discussing. if you already save your work in iterations, there is no reason, literally no reason for you not to make a high res version of the mesh and bake the normals. the only other reasons for you not to are that you're either lazy or incapable. both would imply that you're really not fit to carry out a project such as this and bring it into completion; if those are playing any role in your decision in making halo ce quality assets, i think you may wish to consider switching engines or abandoning this mod.