I did more digging and found the passes option in centileo's options but it doesn't separate shadows and highlights in its own layer.
is there a way to separate them?

here are my settings

Yes it was a jpg.
Thanks for the help!

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Kirgman wrote: Displacement maps should be baked to high precision format 16-bit or 32-bit, these can be png or tiff for example. If you choose jpg/bmp you will see this

i made a sculpt and wanted to bake its displacement map and use it in centi leo.
when used the map it added a rough texture messed up texture compared to c4d standard engine.
is there a way to smoothen it?