diff --git a/components/nif/nif_file.cpp b/components/nif/nif_file.cpp
index 52a37ba5c1..80ea7a0b7f 100644
--- a/components/nif/nif_file.cpp
+++ b/components/nif/nif_file.cpp
@@ -162,6 +162,15 @@ void NIFFile::parse()
       r->recName = rec;
       records[i] = r;
       r->read(this);
+
+      // Discard tranformations for the root node, otherwise some meshes
+      // occasionally get wrong orientation. Only for NiNode-s for now, but
+      // can be expanded if needed.
+      // This should be rewritten when the method is cleaned up.
+      if (0 == i && rec == "NiNode")
+      {
+          static_cast<Nif::Node*>(r)->trafo = Nif::Transformation::getIdentity();
+      }
     }
 
   /* After the data, the nif contains an int N and then a list of N
diff --git a/components/nif/nif_types.hpp b/components/nif/nif_types.hpp
index 17cec19bcd..ee796cc991 100644
--- a/components/nif/nif_types.hpp
+++ b/components/nif/nif_types.hpp
@@ -55,10 +55,26 @@ struct Matrix
 
 struct Transformation
 {
-  Vector pos;
-  Matrix rotation;
-  float scale;
-  Vector velocity;
+    Vector pos;
+    Matrix rotation;
+    float scale;
+    Vector velocity;
+
+    static const Transformation* getIdentity()
+    {
+        static Transformation identity;
+        static bool iset = false;
+        if (!iset)
+        {
+            identity.scale = 1.0f;
+            identity.rotation.v[0].array[0] = 1.0f;
+            identity.rotation.v[1].array[1] = 1.0f;
+            identity.rotation.v[2].array[2] = 1.0f;
+            iset = true;
+        }
+
+        return &identity;
+    }
 };
 #pragma pack(pop)