I made a video tutorial on generating and using normal maps in LightWave. (with the plugins by marvinl@amber.rc.arizona.edu)
It shows all the process and you can download the object and scene files too.
Find it on http://forum.simplylightwave.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=967
(of course it’s free…)
here’s the object I used, 512 polys:
cheers