# Contact:getChildren

Available since LÖVE 0.9.0
This function is not supported in earlier versions.

Gets the child indices of the shapes of the two colliding fixtures. For ChainShapes, an index of 1 is the first edge in the chain.

Used together with Fixture:rayCast or ChainShape:getChildEdge.

## Function

### Synopsis

    indexA, indexB = Contact:getChildren( )

### Arguments

None.

### Returns

`number indexA`
  The child index of the first fixture's shape.
`number indexB`
  The child index of the second fixture's shape.

## See Also

- Contact
- Fixture:rayCast
- ChainShape:getChildEdge

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Category:

- Functions