Animator.SetTrigger not working

Question

I'm new to Unity. I'm trying to create a black screen transition when pressing a button using SetTrigger(). However it's not working. It doesn't even play at the start of the game. Can anyone help me?

Here is my code:

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    if (Input.GetKeyDown("x")) {
        Debug.Log("Hello");
        anim.SetTrigger("Crossfade");
} }

My settings:

Answer 1

I don't think Animator.SetTrigger is very reliable, I've had same situations like this,

Debug.Log(1); 
Animator.SetTrigger();
Debug.Log(2);

And the result was that 1 and 2 were printed, but the SetTrigger function didn't work.

Using SetBool and setting the value back at the next frame instead might help.

--edit--

If even debug print hello doesn't appear, then it shouldn't have anything to do with the Animator, maybe you can should check the input function and try to use the

Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.X);

replace

Input.GetKeyDown("x");