Keeping bodies from going through other bodies

[Tesselode]

The Box2D manual isn't explicit about the issue, but it contains this highly suggestive sentence:

Box2D performs continuous collision sequentially, so bullets may miss fast moving bodies.

I take this to mean that it is possible for the fast moving non-bullet platform to skip over the small bullet body, since Box2D doesn't use CCD when it processes the platform's movement. I don't know what goes on for certain, since this hasn't come up for me. And I am not intimately familiar with Box2D source code...

Did you try setting your platform to be a "bullet" too? If not, it is worth a try.

Reference: http://www.box2d.org/manual.html

Yes, I have tried settings the platforms and the ball to be bullets at the same time.

[Xkeeper]

I'm not sure. It's kind of weird, because my little hack of your game doesn't display the behavior -- rotating the platforms fast enough will still make balls fly off in the right direction.

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			if platform_active[a]==1 and love.mouse.isDown("l") then --rotate platforms
				platform[a]:setAngularVelocity(math.rad(((mousex-mousex_previous)+(mousey-mousey_previous))/3)/love.timer.getDelta())
			else
				platform[a]:setAngularVelocity(0)
			end
			
			--limit platform rotation speed
			local rotspeedlimit=platform_size[a]/300
			if rotspeedlimit<1 then rotspeedlimit=1 end
			
			if platform[a]:getAngularVelocity()>math.rad(300/rotspeedlimit) then platform[a]:setAngularVelocity(math.rad(300/rotspeedlimit)) end
			if platform[a]:getAngularVelocity()<math.rad(-300/rotspeedlimit) then platform[a]:setAngularVelocity(math.rad(-300/rotspeedlimit)) end

Just as a note, though, it would be wise to do the speed check before ever setting the motion, cap it, then update it once and be done with it.