diff --git a/Renderer.cc b/Renderer.cc
index 1ee40e81b2f96c7a63dd7262426e0ea957ac1921..0d3171ed1cd23e338636f1d10f1c0a613e5b9393 100644
--- a/Renderer.cc
+++ b/Renderer.cc
@@ -113,14 +113,15 @@ void Renderer::traverseRenderableNodes( GLState* _glState, SceneGraph::DrawModes
         _node->enter(*_glState, _drawMode);
 
 
-      if (_node->status() != SceneGraph::BaseNode::HideNode)
-        _node->getRenderObjects(this, *_glState, nodeDM, _mat);
-
-      // fetch material
+      // fetch material (Node itself can be a material node, so we have to
+      // set that in front of the nodes own rendering
       SceneGraph::MaterialNode* matNode = dynamic_cast<SceneGraph::MaterialNode*>(_node);
       if (matNode)
         _mat = &matNode->material();
 
+      if (_node->status() != SceneGraph::BaseNode::HideNode)
+        _node->getRenderObjects(this, *_glState, nodeDM, _mat);
+
       if (process_children)
       {
 
diff --git a/Renderer.hh b/Renderer.hh
index 18f612dbf63df9400905702068315bbacb28515d..51f3087459656243cd759596731d7f7068830063 100644
--- a/Renderer.hh
+++ b/Renderer.hh
@@ -182,9 +182,9 @@ protected:
 
 
   /**
-  Dump list of renderobjects to text file.
+  Dump list of render objects to text file.
   @param _fileName name of text file to write to
-  @param _sortedList dump sorted renderobjects in order, may be 0 to use the unsorted list instead
+  @param _sortedList dump sorted render objects in order, may be 0 to use the unsorted list instead
   */
   void dumpRenderObjectsToText(const char* _fileName, ACG::RenderObject** _sortedList = 0) const;