Are the screws in the helmet actual geometry, or is it a normal map or something?asked by Mantis

A little bit of both. So these ones, it's not very much geo, but there's some.

So you made an indentation in the geo to give it some...

Yeah, so basically I did the indent and then I did the dent up.

Because we see right here the way light plays with the actual geo change.

If it's any smaller than this, I wouldn't have done that, because it would just be way too expensive and not really worth it. And this is another thing where it just comes down to the artist's call. Sometimes it's justified, sometimes it's not. It's just case by case.