diff --git a/jme3-blender/src/main/java/com/jme3/asset/BlenderKey.java b/jme3-blender/src/main/java/com/jme3/asset/BlenderKey.java
index 555150ea23..ce133300af 100644
--- a/jme3-blender/src/main/java/com/jme3/asset/BlenderKey.java
+++ b/jme3-blender/src/main/java/com/jme3/asset/BlenderKey.java
@@ -967,11 +967,12 @@ public Spatial deepClone() {
         }
 
         @Override
-        public void depthFirstTraversal(SceneGraphVisitor visitor) {
+        public void depthFirstTraversal(SceneGraphVisitor visitor, boolean preOrder) {
         }
 
         @Override
         protected void breadthFirstTraversal(SceneGraphVisitor visitor, Queue<Spatial> queue) {
         }
+
     }
 }
diff --git a/jme3-core/src/main/java/com/jme3/scene/Geometry.java b/jme3-core/src/main/java/com/jme3/scene/Geometry.java
index 50ca01912f..773671adb2 100644
--- a/jme3-core/src/main/java/com/jme3/scene/Geometry.java
+++ b/jme3-core/src/main/java/com/jme3/scene/Geometry.java
@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ public int collideWith(Collidable other, CollisionResults results) {
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void depthFirstTraversal(SceneGraphVisitor visitor) {
+    public void depthFirstTraversal(SceneGraphVisitor visitor, boolean preOrder) {
         visitor.visit(this);
     }
 
diff --git a/jme3-core/src/main/java/com/jme3/scene/Node.java b/jme3-core/src/main/java/com/jme3/scene/Node.java
index f22c5b4b0f..0c4340a4f3 100644
--- a/jme3-core/src/main/java/com/jme3/scene/Node.java
+++ b/jme3-core/src/main/java/com/jme3/scene/Node.java
@@ -625,15 +625,23 @@ public void updateModelBound() {
             }
         }
     }
-    
+
     @Override
-    public void depthFirstTraversal(SceneGraphVisitor visitor) {
-        for (Spatial child : children.getArray()) {
-            child.depthFirstTraversal(visitor);
+    public void depthFirstTraversal(SceneGraphVisitor visitor, boolean preOrder) {
+        if (preOrder) {
+            visitor.visit(this);
+            for (Spatial child : children.getArray()) {
+                child.depthFirstTraversal(visitor);
+            }
+        } else {
+            for (Spatial child : children.getArray()) {
+                child.depthFirstTraversal(visitor);
+            }
+            visitor.visit(this);
         }
-        visitor.visit(this);
     }
     
+    
     @Override
     protected void breadthFirstTraversal(SceneGraphVisitor visitor, Queue<Spatial> queue) {
         queue.addAll(children);
diff --git a/jme3-core/src/main/java/com/jme3/scene/Spatial.java b/jme3-core/src/main/java/com/jme3/scene/Spatial.java
index b6c61f81e5..aac4ddf24e 100644
--- a/jme3-core/src/main/java/com/jme3/scene/Spatial.java
+++ b/jme3-core/src/main/java/com/jme3/scene/Spatial.java
@@ -1492,10 +1492,23 @@ public Matrix4f getLocalToWorldMatrix(Matrix4f store) {
     }
 
     /**
-     * Visit each scene graph element ordered by DFS
+     * Visit each scene graph element ordered by DFS, also called post order traversal.
+     * Delegates to {@link #depthFirstTraversal(com.jme3.scene.SceneGraphVisitor, boolean) }
+     * with {@code preOrder} set to {@code false}.
      * @param visitor
      */
-    public abstract void depthFirstTraversal(SceneGraphVisitor visitor);
+    public void depthFirstTraversal(SceneGraphVisitor visitor) {
+        depthFirstTraversal(visitor, false);
+    }
+    
+    /**
+     * Visit each scene graph element using post order traversal if {@code preOrder}
+     * is {@code false} or using pre order traversal if {@code preOrder} is 
+     * {@code true}.
+     * @param visitor the visitor to use
+     * @param preOrder {@code false} for post order, {@code true} for pre order 
+     */
+    public abstract void depthFirstTraversal(SceneGraphVisitor visitor, boolean preOrder);
 
     /**
      * Visit each scene graph element ordered by BFS