Trying to convert HDT tails from Elin race to another. Stuck.

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A while back I'd begun attempting to convert the HDT ears and tails from the Tera Elin Race over to the MMD Anime Race. When attempting to assign the Elins' HDT-enabled tails to the Anime Race, I noticed that the tails stuck out sideways through the right buttock for some reason, but assumed at the time that it was something to do with my HDT configuration and decided I'd deal with it later. Returning to it now, I suspect it's a problem with the bones in the tails, as I also had to do some finangling with bones to get the ears to work properly, but I haven't the foggiest clue how to deal with the tail problem. I'd dealt with the ears by adding weight painting for the NPC Head bone in Outfit Studio then setting the HDT bones as children of the head bone, but attempting the same here with the NPC pelvis or spine bones causes Outfit Studio to mangle the bones and output a crushed tail model, so I can't continue there. Changing the positioning of the bones doesn't seem to achieve any results, if I'm even doing it right. I'm stumped.

 

The tails' nifs look something like this:

 

 

 

 

They display incorrectly in-game like so, attached to the proper place but pointing out the side:

 

 

 

 

And an altered copy of the the Elin rabbit tail is attached, if someone would like to inspect the nif's settings for problems.

 

 

tailrabbitcopy.nif