To fellow content creators: feel free to link this FAQ in your item description.

This guide will help you get started:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1098514641


Copyright is a very important issue. If you do not respect it, you may get into legal trouble. You can read about copyright HERE

Another important thing - graphics tablet is very handy for making skins. If you have no experience with drawing or digital art, please be aware that getting good at making skins takes a lot of time and effort.


Simple answer - you can't. Not in the public matchmaking at least. You can however "playtest" skins. How to playtest skins:

For weapons skins you need to subscribe and you can test it from the Private Match tab against bots. It's that simple.

For sharks it gets tricky. Shark skins aren't fully supported yet. But if you REALLY want to playtest it then it goes like this. First - you need to download the SDK (Depth Editor) from here:

https://steamhost.cn/app/335640/
It's free so don't worry. It has quite a few gigabytes though.

Important note: with SDK downloaded you have two instances of the game installed, so please be very specific about the folder locations that I will point out or the shark skin won't work!

Secondly - subscribe and download shark skin that you want to playtest. After downloading the skin you need to find location where your Steam folder is located and then go as follow:

Steam > steamapps > workshop > content > 274940 > [now you need to find a folder with the skin number, guessing game] > .upk file

The file should have contain the name of the skin, for example: 76561198042691070_Mako_Stardust.upk. Copy that. Now navigate to:

Steam > steamapps > common > Depth > SDK > DepthGame > Content > Characters > Sharks > [Folder with shark species that this skin belongs to] > Skins

Paste it to the Skins folder. Now you need to find a DepthEd.exe of the SDK version (it won't launch from your usual Depth Launcher or through steam). Navigate to:

Steam > steamapps > common > Depth > SDK > Binaries > [either Win32 or Win64 folder, depends on your system, but no harm in trying both of them] > DepthEd.exe

Launch it and start a Private Game with bots. From here you can playtest the shark skin.

If by any chance your game crashes when chosing the specific skin - try it again, should work when you'll try for the second time.


All of the workshop skins are submissions to the crate system. Developers need to accept the skins to the crate and then they become available as a random drop from a crate that can be bought in Store tab in-game.

More detail on how the crate system works can be found HERE