Mod that makes nosecones work

[Tigermisu]

I'm looking for a mod that lets nosecones actually reduce the drag without all the other features FAR adds.

Thanks

[Razor235]

I don't know of any other mod that does that, but if you aren't averse to possibly breaking some of your designs, there is something you can do. Go to Gamedata->Squad->Parts->Aero, and select a nose cone. Open its part.cfg, and find the values for minimum_drag and maximum_drag. If you put a minus sign before the values, the part will actually have a negative drag, leading to better aerodynamic performance on a vessel. It's not perfect, and definitely not realistic, but it works for now.

For some fun, give a cone -10 drag, and decouple it from a pod on the launchpad with a separator.

[Eric S]

Sadly, this is pretty much true. The solution to making nosecones work involves either redoing the entire aerodynamics portion of the simulation, at which point you've recreated FAR, or you give nosecones negative amounts of drag, opening you up to some insanely oddball behavior.