3D/perspective Top down shooter bullet issues

Question

I'm developing a top-down shooter with multiple levels (ground for ground units, middle level for buildings, top level for air unity).

The problem is the collision. Though I can make the collider box of a bullet be long enough to reach the ground (and collide with it), the real issue is optical.

When the bullet is fired from a aircraft and collides with some object on the ground (building, ground unit) it will be optically offset due to the perspective camera, because it looks like the shot "by-passed" the target as seen below

Is there any way to make the bullets collide perspectively correct? I'm using Unity3d Engine and it offers only simple colliders (box, sphere, cylinder, mesh and wheel), though I don't think a cone-formed collider would solve this issue.

I'd need a (cheap) way to check if it's overlapping a destructible object? I thought of casting a ray from the camera through the bullet and if it hits something destructible, trigger an action, but that's quite punctual and maybe to performance heavy on certain number of bullets

Answer 1

I've solved it by putting the projectile collider in a child object and rotate it towards the camera.

Update

It was as simple as dropping this script into the collider for the projectiles. One makes them very long, so they can touch the ground objects.

public class AlignWithCamera : MonoBehaviour {
    private Transform myTransform;
    private Transform cameraTransform;

    public void Update () {
        Align();
    }

    public void OnEnable() {
        Initialize();
        Align();
    }
    public void Initialize() {
        myTransform = transform;
        cameraTransform = Camera.main.transform;
    }

    public void Align() {
        Vector3 direction = cameraTransform.position - myTransform.position;
        myTransform.rotation = Quaternion.FromToRotation(Vector3.up, direction);
    }
}

Some of this isn't necessary anymore, since Unity3D has been optimized a lot in the past 6 years. The myTransform was basically an optimization to avoid calling transform property on every update, but it should be a non-issue by now.

And the reason I did initialize in OnEnable is cause my projectiles were recycled in an object pool, so they are only created once and then put inactive one used or go out of screen and return back to the pool.