From a6cd326db6f3fba32c5abeeef1423168b169129a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Rose <david@ddrose.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:15:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] base.camera should be a ModelNode

---
 direct/src/showbase/ShowBase.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/direct/src/showbase/ShowBase.py b/direct/src/showbase/ShowBase.py
index e628a62bcc..05666e898c 100644
--- a/direct/src/showbase/ShowBase.py
+++ b/direct/src/showbase/ShowBase.py
@@ -1043,7 +1043,11 @@ class ShowBase(DirectObject.DirectObject):
         # self.camera is the parent node of all cameras: a node that
         # we can move around to move all cameras as a group.
         if self.camera == None:
-            self.camera = self.render.attachNewNode('camera')
+            # We make it a ModelNode with the PTLocal flag, so that
+            # a wayward flatten operations won't attempt to mangle the
+            # camera.
+            self.camera = self.render.attachNewNode(ModelNode('camera'))
+            self.camera.node().setPreserveTransform(ModelNode.PTLocal)
             __builtin__.camera = self.camera
 
         if useCamera: