Sorry for the late reply, I missed this one somehow. A good starting point to help you understand why this is happening would be this video about infoLayers https://youtu.be/wEWTfGGUZrA … that is, if you have not already seen it. If you increased the number of available channels to be capable of that many farmlands, you are likely still being held up by the PNG itself. An 8 bit png is only capable of 256 colors, and therefore this is the max amount of info (farmlands) able to be stored and presented within game. Of course I’m assuming that you are still working with an 8 bit png.

What steps have to taken to attempt to achieve 771 farmlands? What I mean is, have you increased the num of channels available on the infoLayer to get you over 700? Next, you need a bigger png if you have not already done so. I’m not an expert in this area and I could be wrong, but I believe your next step up with the PNG would be a 24 bit, and that will give you the capability of 16.8 million farmlands 🙂 I would not be at all surprised if you encountered some kind of issue along the way trying to incorporate so many farmlands (771, not 16.8M). I would like to think that it’s doable, but there could be a performance issue, or the Giant’s Engine just may not like anything over 256. I dunno, I suppose you are about to find out 🙂 I would venture to guess that an infoLayer created from a 24 bit png and the appropriate number of channels should not be an issue, but that’s just my guess.

Keep me updated on this one 🙂

The file that would control the color state is the PNG itself. The infoLayer is created from a PNG. If you use an 8 bit PNG to create the infoLayer, you will be limited to 255  colors. I would step up to a 16 or 24 (whichever is the next step up) bit PNG and recreate the infoLayer using that. It’s giving you that error for anything over 255 because that’s all the colors it’s capable of at the moment. You can try running the existing infoLayer through the GRLE converter and turn it back into a PNG, then try converting that PNG to 16 bit (I’m not sure how well this will work with existing color data), then convert that PNG back over to a fresh infoLayer.

A map with this many farmlands is setting the bar pretty high for your first map. This is the reason I preach to start on smaller maps and get all the fundamentals down pat, this way when you step up your game and try something new, you know exactly what to go after when things don’t work out the way that you planned.

Anyhow, there is no doubt that the infoLayer is your issue, and it’s an issue because it was created from an 8 bit PNG. Get that converted over to a higher bit count and I feel like you will have solved at least part of the problem.