Vertex Explosion Fix (disables face customization)

*** To those asking if this mod is still needed with the new "low readbacks" or "relaxed readbacks" or "fast readbacks" features. All of these are basically the same, they do work to eliminate vertex explosions and don't have much performance impact, but they do cause additional significant stuttering for all but the most powerful CPUs from what I have seen (my testing with my 11900k has a lot more stuttering with low readbacks). If you are getting more stutters with these readbacks on, then I would suggest disabling readbacks and using the mod instead

INSTALLATION:

Without Mod Manager: Just find overwrite the files in your Bloodborne Install (ex. folder CUSA00900 or CUSA03173) with the files in the zip. If you are overwriting some files, then you are doing it correctly.

With Mod Manager: Mod Managers allow you revert mods easily. If using BB_Launcher, just put the extract the mod in the following folder (BBLauncher folder)/BBLauncher/Mods, and activate with the mod manager. If using Generic Mod Enabler, use the modloader version and extract in the (Bloodborne Install Folder)/dvdroot_ps4/MODS folder

DESCRIPTION:

It was observed that the vast majority of the frequent vertex explosions on Bloodborne using the shadPS4 emulator occur in player or npc faces. This mod removes files for the Facegen middleware that the game uses for face customization; as this appears to be the main source of the data corruption causing these explosions.

Without Facegen, face shape customization cannot work, and player characters will always have the default face shape for their body type. Hair/hair color, eyes/eye color customizations still work. NPC faces seem largely unaffected by the mod.

Multiple users have confirmed this mod nearly eliminates the face explosions from both pc and npcs. My own playtime since using this mod is about 1. 5 hours and I have yet to encounter a vertex explosion. Note that vertex explosions can still happen rarely since not all of them are related to Facegen. There is no known fix for these other explosions as their actual root cause is not yet fully understood.

Put the files in game install folder or use a mod manager to install

Thanks to adjonesey for figuring out the method behind this!