I'll look into this in a bit, currently working on finishing up texturing some models to render.

Spritify is a blender Add-on, which will create sprite sheets for you from your rendered animations in blender. Here's a quick example of a cube rotated.

sprites.png


I noticed that spritify, from SkaceKachna's post
https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=5336
wasn't compatible with ...

So, Blender has a number of things that are different/not working from this tutorial, but they're easy enough to get around.
Firstly, changing background to transparent in 2.8 has to be done something like
https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/118021/how-to-render-with-transparent-background ...

I'm not sure what all is possible within the API (I'm still learning the file structure, and LUA to mod things for myself), but you might be able to put a hook in to catch whenever it tries direct pathfinding, and try periodically to assign a new path, or stop the vehicle altogether, so as to ...

Any chance you could incorporate compatibility for RSO in a quick patch? I'm okay configuring it for myself, but others might not feel so inclined, love the mod though! Cheers!!