From 7bb160d27fdc35281a757a517cf3445f0ffa2312 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Osfield <robert@openscenegraph.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 23:19:47 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Updateds NEWS for the 0.8.44 release.

Change the osg::NodeVisitor::getLocalToWorldMatrix() /
getWorldToLocalMatrix() methods so it do not initilize the matrix being
passed to them, and assume the the users has already initiliazed them
appropriately, such as to take account of camera positions.
---
 NEWS                    | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/osg/NodeVisitor.cpp |  2 --
 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4ddbe0795..45f4988a6 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,38 @@
 OSG News (most significant items from ChangeLog)
 ================================================
 
+2nd February 2002 - osg-0.8.44.tar.gz
+
+    >>> Support added for Mac OSX, Cygwin and MinGW, and new TerraPage loader.
+    
+    The major item for this release is the completion of the Mac OSX port,
+    thanks to Phil Atkin and others for making this happen.
+    
+    Also added to support for Cygwin and MinGW builds which gives Windows
+    users a free and robust alternative to the Visual C++, which we
+    have Norman Vine to thank.
+    
+    Funtionality wise there has been a great deal of work behind the scenes
+    putting in place a flexible and extensible framework for handling 
+    transform nodes, users can now extend the osg::Transform node through
+    subclassing or via callbacks.  This work will underpin future work
+    on moving camera setup into the scene graph, and environmental effects
+    such as cloud layers, ground planes, stars and earth sky implementations
+    which are planned for the next release.
+    
+    Callbacks and virtual methods have also been added to the osg::LOD & 
+    osg::Billboard to allow users to customize their behavior.  Draw 
+    callbacks have also been added to allow customization of osg::Drawables
+    at runtime.
+    
+    The Open Flight .flt loader has undergone a number of improvements
+    including support for instancing and billboards.
+    
+    Support for the clone operation on osg::Object's has been expanded
+    to allow cloneType() - a simple clone an blank object of the same type,
+    and clone(CopyOp&) where CopyOp is a functor which allows users to
+    specify the deep copy vs shallow copying of object data.
+    
 
 2nd January 2002 - osg-0.8.43.tar.gz
 
diff --git a/src/osg/NodeVisitor.cpp b/src/osg/NodeVisitor.cpp
index 32039edb1..b6d461480 100644
--- a/src/osg/NodeVisitor.cpp
+++ b/src/osg/NodeVisitor.cpp
@@ -98,7 +98,6 @@ class TransformVisitor : public NodeVisitor
 
 const bool NodeVisitor::getLocalToWorldMatrix(Matrix& matrix, MatrixMode mode, Node* node)
 {
-    matrix.makeIdentity();
     TransformVisitor tv(matrix,mode,TransformVisitor::LOCAL_TO_WORLD,this);
     for(NodePath::iterator itr=_nodePath.begin();
         itr!=_nodePath.end();
@@ -112,7 +111,6 @@ const bool NodeVisitor::getLocalToWorldMatrix(Matrix& matrix, MatrixMode mode, N
 
 const bool NodeVisitor::getWorldToLocalMatrix(Matrix& matrix, MatrixMode mode, Node* node)
 {
-    matrix.makeIdentity();
     TransformVisitor tv(matrix,mode,TransformVisitor::WORLD_TO_LOCAL,this);
     for(NodePath::iterator itr=_nodePath.begin();
         itr!=_nodePath.end();