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Is it possible? Or I should add custom bones to skeleton?
Some thoughts:
1. We can show holstered weapons (as in Gothic).
2. We can show rings.

Any suggestions?

I'll just leave it here:

The basic idea: I use the xbase_anim.nif with some custom bones, to which I attach weapon meshes. With default skeleton the game behaves just like a vanilla game.
Works for any NPC.

Is there a chance to merge it upstream, if I'll fully implement it?

There was this project for Morrowind, afaik it was never finished. Though quite a lot of assets were made for it actually.
http://www.gamesas.com/extended-sheathing-t377816.html

I forgot about vanilla skeleton in Morrowind, but basically for shield/sword assets you should have on each hand joint called shield/weapon, so you can constrain them to the hands. It's better if you have separate joints for assets rather then using character skeleton for that. But I don't think it's still posible to have custom rigs, guess that's not supported yet.

https://github.com/OpenMW/openmw/pull/1615

I updated my "weapon sheathing" branch, so resource format is compatible with weapon sheathing feature from MWSE.

Congratulations! I think mainlining your branch would make some MWSE players take a look at OpenMW now.

Can we make weapon sheathing an optional feature from the Advanced panel and merge it into master?

Is there any way the merging of this right now would make stuff problematic during the post 1.0 dehardcoding? Otherwise, it is a neat thing, especially since it already is compatible with a bunch of mods.

I'll have a closer look at it sometimes next week.