I think that snow is is located at: Textures-> Dungeons-> caves-> icecavesnowtrim01.dds Without testing, I can't say for sure. There's an: icecavewall01.dds that is literally 100% transparent, but it's backed up with an alpha file: icecavewall01_n.dds that is NOT transparent for some odd reason. Maybe this will help someone?

Did anyone test this ? I can't do ir right now ...

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I tried all that yesterday. It's not a texture to my knowledge, I believe it's a fractal or it's generated some other way.

It is not a set texture. It is a shader that draws snow procedurally. Crysis used this technique too.

http://i.imgur.com/fwF4e.jpg

This.

While you can change the snow texture it maps onto the rocks, that streaky pattern emerges from the normal map of the rock itself (due to how the snow is calculated), not the snow texture. It could be fixed by smoothing all the rock normal maps, if they're anything like the NPC normal maps there may be pixelated artifacts in them

The shader responsible for the snow effect must be changed. Editing textures won't help here. The pixelshader obviously uses the vertex normals and the bumpmap to determine whether a point of the texture faces upwards. If some threshold is reached, the snow texture will be rendered instead of the actual surface texture. You'd have to change the pixelshader to use this "upwards" value to interpolate between the surface and snow textures to get smoother edges.
All shaders seem to be compiled into the shaders001.fxp file in the "Skyrim - Shaders.bsa". But don't ask me how to edit it, i don't really have the time to figure that out at the moment.

yeh we know that but the problem is that it is using some kind of texture at least in some areas I can spot some color definition in the texture of the snow over rocks not just pure white as seems instead on other stuff like some buildings....

seems also that there is a way to give the surface a bump but as well a snowy area ...

Yes, that is what we're talking about when we say "normals". The "bumpiness" is stored in a texture called normal map. They're usually stored with the suffix _n, pairred to another texture- ie. File.dds, File_n.dds - and ar eeasily recognisable as they appear a weird bluey-green-pink hologram like image.

The snow texture the pixelshader uses though is NOT normal mapped, that is defined by the normal map of the surface it is resting on, ie the boulder's. which happens to be the same normal map used in the snow distribution calaculation.

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Skyrim is limited to 2006 hardware because of the Consoles... All we can do now is Mod skyrim.

I'm not being a PC really devoted fan, i'm just saying the truth..

What this fits with finding the procedural snow texture?