A counter for a monster behavior

[Kzer-Za]

Can I have a counter in a DECORATE file (probably, calling ACS file)? I want to make Heretic's undead knights throw axes not randomly, but in order: 3 green axes, 1 red. For that, I suppose, I need something like the following in a decorate file:

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Missile:
	KNIG E 7 A_FaceTarget
	KNIG F 6 A_FaceTarget
	TNT1 A 0 A_JumpIf(CallACS("KnightAxeCounter") < 3, "ThrowAxeGreen")
	TNT1 A 0 A_CustomMissile("HLKnightAxeRed",40)
	Goto Refire
ThrowAxeGreen:
	TNT1 A 0 A_CustomMissile("HLKnightAxeGreen",40)
Refire:
	KNIG G 5
	KNIG F 2 A_MonsterRefire(40,"See")
	KNIG F 0 A_Jump(64,"See")
	Goto Missile

And something like this in an ACS file:

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Script "KnightAxeCounter" (int AxeCounter)
{
if (AxeCounter < 3)
	{AxeCounter++;}
else
	{AxeCounter = 0;}
}

But how do I pass the counter to the script from the decorate file? And is the counter going to be separate for different knights or just one for all of them (which would defeat its pupose, of course)?

[Apeirogon]

You can use user variable in decorate for that.
https://zdoom.org/wiki/User_variable

[Kzer-Za]

You can use user variable in decorate for that.

Thanks!

I wrote in the decorate and acs files the content that I had wrote in my opening post. I declared the variable as

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var int user_axecounter;

and initiated it in the Spawn state as

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TNT1 A 0 NoDelay A_SetUserVar("user_axecounter", 3)

However, I'm getting this error when I try to launch GZDoom:

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Script error, ":decorate.knight" line 47:
Integer expected for parameter 0

The line 47 is where I call the ACS script:

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TNT1 A 0 A_JumpIf(ACS_ExecuteWithResult("KnightAxeCounter", user_axecounter) < 3, "ThrowAxeGreen")

What am I doing wrong? I declared the variable as integer and initiated it, why is it giving me this

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Integer expected for parameter 0

?

[Kzer-Za]

Scratch that, I'm an idiot, I used ACS_ExecuteWithResult when I should have ACS_NamedExecuteWithResult!