So my conclusion on the autotopology feature in 3d-coat. its very interesting but just not nearly as good as doing it by hand. had to cut a few corners to get this leg at 1000 tri, but its exactly at 1000 which one do you prefer ?
i was surprised at how well it works, that said im not happy enough with the auto retopo feature of 3d-coat so i will probably redo this leg and do the retopo manually in 3d-coat. still looks decent. 1000 tri, 1024 normal map.