This is a common setting in trainers. Can't comment on others but on page 2 of simple trainer there is the option 'everyone ignores player' makes sure it is disabled. You can also save trainer configuration in the options if you want some to be default when you load in

For me, it was a modified gameconfig file. Try defaulting to one of the more popular ones.

I have managed to solve this by installing naturalvision evolved. I did a manual install. it must have been one of the effects files but hard to tell which one caused the problem. Anyway this is resolved now so unless this becomes a more common problem it is not worth the time investigating further at the moment.

@ReNNie It occurs even with a different visualsettings.dat file unfortunately. I am trying to troubleshoot this but getting nowhere so far.

Update: At night you can see a very dim outline of the traffic lights.
It is not caused by ENB or Reshade presets and it's not because of the street light textures I use.
See the green light?

Any ideas?

Hi everyone. Ever since I started modding the game I've had this issue, basically I can only see the traffic light colors when I am further away and when I get closer they disappear. The only thing I can think of is something in the visualsettings.dat file which is VisualV but I did not modify this further. Can anyone help me with this?

Here you can see screenshots of the issue:
Up Close invisible lights

Further away visible(see the red signals)

I've been trying to look for the setting that is causing the issue but no luck so far.

EDIT:
Hmm. Upon further inspection of the visualsettings file I can see that some settings are different in VisualV's(on the left) .dat file.
Namely the below settings can be causing the issue.
trafficLight.near.intensity 0.0
trafficLight.near.radius 0.0
I will change these to the default value and report back.

EDIT2: No, the issue is still present.