[Mudbox] retopo, oh the woes

SpaceRogue

Hy folks, for a project in class we have to use Mudbox. But I'm getting entirely frustrated, the retopo tools don't seem to work and more than often it just gives up and crashes, Mudbox also seems to be using way to much juice if you ask me when using Grab tools; 
[big file for reading, shows specs too I guess ]
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31239405/3D/Pcount/mud.png

That's only half of my frustrations but the other things are software limitation because I'm a spoiled Zbrush user :'D 

Okay so I did a thing and wanted to work it out more to get a feel of the program 
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31239405/3D/Pcount/1.png

time for retop ... ouch
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31239405/3D/Pcount/2.png

maybe its the slider ... mmmh nope 
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31239405/3D/Pcount/3.png

ok fine lets use the curves ,slider on 0.50 like the tutorial said
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31239405/3D/Pcount/5.png

lel
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31239405/3D/Pcount/6.png

saved as FBX, import for a clean scene, it SOMETIMES works but I got holes, so I did a symetry fix, since then its gone to the pooper. All I'm getting is ...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31239405/3D/Pcount/7.png


I have no idea what's going on, or what I'm doing wrong. I'm not allowed to sculpt in Zbrush for this assignment ,its driving me up the walls. Is this program just highly incompetent or is this on my end ? 

oglu

if you have to use mud, you have to do it the mudbox way... mud is extremly picky about topo and uvs... 

mud is also not for design sculpting... its more a detailing software... without a good base its hard to get something out of mud...

if i had to do a sculpt in mud only my workflow would be...

rough scetch...
autoretopo...
blocking more detail...
autoretopo....
cleanup in maya...
detail sculpt...