How can I add custom collision to a point cloud without resorting to generating complex collision as offered by the LiDAR Point Cloud Support plugin?

I’m using the LiDAR Point Cloud Support plugin which offers to generate collision for any point cloud. However, the generated collision is overkill for my purposes, is too sensitive to noise in the point cloud, and often crashes during the process. So I’d rather author my own collision using the capabilities provided for static meshes but am stuck because when I open the edit window for my point cloud, no options are presented to add collision. I suspect this is because the LiDAR plugin doesn’t implement this kind of collision authoring. So is there a workaround for this? So far I’ve tried adding an empty static mesh component to see if I’m then able to add collision but this hasn’t worked.

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