Sometimes you need a mesh with many faces that you can deform organically. This can be done using the primitives in MED but it is a tedious process. Here is an alternate method.
1. Start with a grayscale relief map. (or you can just click "File/New Terrain" for a flat mesh)
2. Import it into MED
3. Make the size mesh necessary--usually much smaller than the default terrain size.
4. Convert the mesh to a model so that you can use all the modeling tools.
5. Then you can deform the mesh into whatever you like. In this case I have made cloth.
It may be necessary to hit the recalculation command to smooth it out.
and the result, skinned
