diff --git a/src/ObjWriting/XModel/XModelDumper.cpp.template b/src/ObjWriting/XModel/XModelDumper.cpp.template
index 11a35d69..5426b73a 100644
--- a/src/ObjWriting/XModel/XModelDumper.cpp.template
+++ b/src/ObjWriting/XModel/XModelDumper.cpp.template
@@ -675,6 +675,7 @@ namespace
             CreateJsonXModel(jsonXModel, *xmodel);
             nlohmann::json jRoot = jsonXModel;
 
+            jRoot["$schema"] = "http://openassettools.dev/schema/xmodel.v1.json";
             jRoot["_type"] = "xmodel";
             jRoot["_version"] = 1;
             jRoot["_game"] = GAME_LOWER;