So in the vanilla orbiter I just loaded this and got this:
orionvc4:ORIONVC4
MODE 0
HATCH 0 0.0000
PANELFOLD 0 0.0000
JOINT1 0.5000
WING1ROTATE 0.5000
WING2ROTATE 0.5000
WING3ROTATE 0.5000
WING4ROTATE 0.5000
SOLP 0 0.0000 1 0.4816
STATUS Orbiting Earth
RPOS 6989652.468 -0.002 508309.390
RVEL -547.0105 -0.0000 7521.8213
AROT 0.000 0.000 0.000
AFCMODE 7
NAVFREQ 0 0
XPDR 0
END
Yes Mode determines the state and which mesh to be seen. This is from the Orion MPCV
int mode; // 0 = orbit config, CM
// 1 = orbit config, CM
// 2 = reentry config, CM only
// 3 = drogue config, CM + drogue chute
// 4 = chute config, reefed - not used
// 5 = chute config, fully deployed
// 6 = landed
// 10 = Launch, LAS + fairing
// 11 = Launch, fairing gone
// 12 = Launch, LAS gone
added the sls launch and get this: