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If you want to know the technical side to a normal map(you probably don't but I love writing walls of text ): When the engine computes how brightly lit a vertex is, it uses the normal vector of the vertex to do that. It's basically a vector that tells the engine where the "up" direction of the vertex is (don't know how to explain it better).

It might be easier to imagine if you take the normal vector of the polygon that is formed by the vertices instead: if you take a piece of paper and balance a pen on its tip so its perpendicular to the paper, that's the normal vector = the direction the paper is facing ^^

Now to compute the lighting, the engine basically compares that normal vector of the vertices/polygons with the vector of the incoming light. If they're exactly opposite, the light is hitting the polygon at a right angle and it is lit with maximum brightness. If they're going in the same direction, the light is hitting the polygon from behind and it is not lit at all = black.

What the normal map does basically is, it uses red green and blue values to store the normal vectors of a highpoly mesh (the rgb value stores the x,y and z values) in the texture of a lowpoly mesh. (You can also generate "fake" normalmaps from photos) Now when the engine is computing the lighting, it uses these stored vectors instead of the normal vectors of the lowpoly. This allows you to fake surface details or soft edges without additional geometry.