For a first person game with modern graphics you probably would bevel an asset like that, especially if you expect players to walk up to them. With normal maps you generally don't need to bevel assets if it wont have a noticeable effect on the silhouette, and for a 3rd person or top down game (or something more stylized)…
Thank you for your advices. I test rendered it with basic texture and it looks good. I'm creating a set of these stone lanterns and I'll keep in mind even density. I've got one more basic question about edges. In past I ran into problems while baking onto low poly with steep edges and I started to bevel them but I am not…
Looks perfectly normal and reasonable. The stronger the gradients and colors in a tangent space normal map- the more difference there is between the high poly and low poly shading/normals. With a properly synced tangent space workflow, it shouldn't be much of an issue, but it can cause issues when textures get mip'd down…