Started to model and UV the lowpoly pieces of the desk. Read an article on the polycount wiki about baking normal maps that really opened my eyes to how they work. I did a test bake and I'm getting some artifacts on the normal map though.

Maya 2012 can't do transfer maps, something about imported preferences screwing it up. So I have to delete my preferences and redo copying my scripts and stuff over I guess before I can get much further with this.