Random particle wiggle on surface?

Hi rfranks, in this specific case, like if you want some small spheres, to stick on the surface of a sphere, the easiest way is probably by using Constraints on the small spheres, like this:

Did you try using hair particles? Set the render shape of the hair to the sphere and then play with the hair dynamics (mass, stiffness, randomness).  When I tried they rolled around, but were slightly imbedded in the larger sphere.  If you want to use plain particles check the gravity setting, I think the default is falling.

ttanya53 Thanks, when I tried the hair settings none of the smaller spheres moved around, I've also found out you can't keyframe particle settings, is that right?

the above is with hair particles, I think you can't or I don't know how to key frame particles, but you can do a lot with force fields to control how they move and set things like initial velocity, etc.  I don't know that much about them just played around some.  I don't know if this is what you are after or not.

Here is a screen shot of the above particle system.

ttanya53 thanks but not the small spheres rotating on themselves but rotating around the larger sphere's surface, pretend their ants walking over a planet randomly