Displacement mapping
Hi @Anonymous
Thanks for posting! While I am not very familiar with displacement mapping, I have some thoughts.
The bump effect you are seeing while editing a material uses an picture file to add texture visualization to both appearances and materials, but it does not actually change the form of the model (the texture is simply applied visually to a flat face).
You may be referring to the ability to pull textures and maps off photographs into Fusion 360 as a mesh body. While this is not currently possible in Fusion, it has been presented at the Fusion 360 Ideastation - please give the post linked here a vote!
Hopefully this helps! Please let me know if I did not understand what you are looking for correctly - I am happy to look into any questions you may have.
@Anonymous nope.
@paul.clauss bump mapping is really only a visual trick to modify the surface normals base don an image to fool the eye. But often where two geometries with different textures share a common edge it is fairly obvious.
As opposed to bump mapping, displacement mapping actually displaces geometry, which requires the underlying geometry to be tessellated so it can be displaced. This can create extremely detailled textures without having to actually model geometry.
I made a tutorial just this weekend on how to get displacement textures into Fusion 360 with the help of Blender and its procedural textures.
Another option to do this in Fusion 360 is to use the image2surface plugin for Fusion 360. If you have an image you can use for the displacement and the surface you want to displace is relatively flat to begin with.