# Exercise: Direct Lighting To build up lighting skills, start as simple as possible: ignore all the fancy lighting features of your game engine or renderer, and instead manually hand-place every light source, including any bounce lights or fill lights. This is a labor-intensive "old fashioned" way of lighting a 3D space, but it is a useful exercise to force you to think about what your light is doing. This workflow is also more relevant than you may think; relatively recent games like Fallout 4 feature no precomputed light baking. Light a simple blockout room with realtime direct lights and hand-placed indirect lighting. If this is your first time thinking about lighting, texture the blockout with grayscale textures and use desaturated grayscale lighting. If you'd like more of a challenge, use colored prototyping textures and colored lights. Disable precomputed light baking, use only realtime lights, consult the lighting page on how to setup a fill light --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://book.leveldesignbook.com/learning/projects/unfinished-wip-pages/exercise-direct-lighting.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.